dehydrating

[Tank-Girl]

Wow. Sweet basil leaves take a long time to dry and I'm not sure I like how dark they got when fully dry.
Sweet basil leaves are rather thick and leathery.
The temp setting was low so I'm not sure what happened.

 

[LadyLocust]

I will be picking even moooore kale and dehydrate it to throw in soups and stews come winter. Also, we have so much lavender, I will be cutting it and hanging it to dry then infuse oil with some of it for soaps and lotions.

 

[WVDragonlady]

Last week I did
1 tray of strawberry mint
1 tray of flat parsley
1 tray of marjoram
1 tray of peppermint
1 tray of Greek oregano

Today I started
1 tray of lemon balm ( it really took off all of a sudden)
1 tray of strawberry mint ( it is growing like crazy. I hope I get a good cutting off of it this fall)
1 tray of English thyme

 

[LadyLocust]

@WVDragonlady might I just say. "Yum!"

Got my lavender harvested today and bunches all hanging. The summer kitchen smells so good.

 

[WVDragonlady]

Today I started
1 tray of basil
1 tray of sage
1 tray of rosemary

 

[LadyLocust]

1 dehydrator is full of kale - I need to go check it. It should be about done.
1 dehydrator is full of apricots with a bunch more waiting their turn as soon as they are at the perfect ripeness.

 

[WVDragonlady]

You know I have never seen fresh apricots in any of the stores here. I have used the canned ones before to dry. I have to rinse them off first to get the syrup off and let them drain some before I dry them

 

[Amish Heart]

Filled mine with zucchini rounds.

 

[LadyLocust]

@WVDragonlady you poor dear, those cant be the same as freshly dehydrated. I should send you a few
@Amish Heart how do you use your dried zucchini? I grabbed a cuke plant and it turned out to be a zucchini that someone put in the wrong place so I'm still without cukes. I always wonder why the don't sell zucchini seeds individually wrapped. You only need 1 or maybe 2 for a large family.

 

[Amish Heart]

I cut it into rounds and dehydrate it to use in soups and stews (rehydrates in the broth). Or I shred it and dehydrate it to make chocolate zucchini bread.

 

[timmie]

Got some plums , and oranges , and apples free today. will be loading dehydrator tomorrow or maybe tonight. It's raining now and making me lazy or maybe I'm just tired.

 

[Meerkat]

We dehydrated about 15 lb.s of eggplants. Put them in Food Saver bags.

 

[Meerkat]

Today I started
1 tray of basil
1 tray of sage
1 tray of rosemary

We lost all our herbs last year except for basil,it is huge now.

 

[timmie]

got 8 trays of apple slices and 1 tray of orange slices.

 

[Amish Heart]

One dehydrator full of sliced mushrooms, and the other full of tomato slices

 

[WVDragonlady]

1 tray of peppermint
1 tray of Greek oregano

 

[Amish Heart]

More tomato slices and some green bell pepper strips

 

[LadyLocust]

I'm on my last dehydrator full of apricots for now. I will have to find more. My folks gave me two huge lemons from my aunts tree since they just returned from California. I will probably dehydrate at least one of them. They are the size of grapefruit! I have never seen lemons so huge. I also need to get more kale dried for winter.

 

[timmie]

tomatoes , oranges , and pineapple on the dehydrator tonight.

 

[timmie]

apples , oranges , and pineapple again.

 

[Amish Heart]

Colorful mini marshmallows. I'll bring thing to my cousin's little granddaughter. She loves to bring some to church to keep her busy during service.

 

[LadyLocust]

Colorful mini marshmallows. I'll bring thing to my cousin's little granddaughter. She loves to bring some to church to keep her busy during service.

You dehydrated the mini marshmallows? What does that do to them? Just make them harder rather than mushy?

I need to cook up some spaghetti squash so I think tomorrow will be spaghetti night. Once the squash is cooked and dehydrated, it cooks up quickly like pasta.

 

[Amish Heart]

I like doing squash, too.
Mini marshmallows are crunchy candy when dehydrated. You can do big ones, too, although they're kinda weird to eat. They are used commercially all the time...hot cocoa mixes have dehydrated marshmallows in them sometimes. They rehydrate quickly when you put them in hot chocolate, so no need to buy fresh marshmallows. For Christmas gifts for families I have made my own hot cocoa mix: 1 part cocoa powder, two parts powdered milk, two parts powdered sugar. Mix well in a 1/2 gallon mason jar, Add dehydrated marshmallows to the top 3 inches of the mix. Add some candy cane stirring sticks.
Watermelon chunks are good to dehydrate, too.

 

[timmie]

got all apples , oranges , and grapes put up . dehydrator cleaned and ready to go again. we've really got to find celery at a good price and dehydrate a bunch.

 

[Amish Heart]

Celery is expensive. Finally found cabbage at 49 cents a lb and shredded it and dehydrated it. Just put in beef jerkey.

 

[LadyLocust]

Spaghetti squash in the dehydrator and green Belen's in the canner.

 

[timmie]

gotta ask " what is green belens?"

 

[Terri9630]

gotta ask " what is green belens?"

I'm going to guess green beans but auto correct got her. Bout time it got someone else....

 

[LadyLocust]

gotta ask " what is green belens?"

Bahahaha! The aliens took over.

 

[timmie]

we have 4 dehydrators that we are going to load with taters in the morning.