The Best Dehydrating Recipes & Tips For Preserving Your Harvests
Find out the best Dehydrating Recipes & tips are for preserving your home garden harvests from season to season. We will be posting recipes for dehydrating garden herbs and vegetables as well as uses for each item.Drying your own herbs & veggies from your garden is a great way to save money and add extra nutrients to your family's meals. Homemade vegetable powders can be added to just about any recipe. It is a great way to sneak in vegetables to your picky eater's meals.Dried herbs can be expensive to buy at the store, when you grow your own herb garden, making your own herbs is easy. All you need is a cool dry place, an oven, or a dehydrator. See our favorite dried herb recipes below.
How to make Moringa Powder
Moringa is one of our favorite trees to grow here in the desert. They are low maintenance, drought-tolerant, and a great source of vitamins and minerals. The entire tree is edible from its roots to its leaves, flowers, and pods. In this new post we are going to go over how to make your own Moringa Powder.
Dehydrated Tomatoes: A Beginner’s Guide
Tomatoes have soooo many uses in the kitchen. You can slice them, chop them, blend them into a sauce… this versatile vegetable is used to make some of our favorite dishes. But, did you know, you can use dehydrated tomatoes to add to your favorite meals? These days, conserving food is more important than ever. Americans waste over 72 billion pounds of food EACH year! That number is crazy. Recently people have been raiding the stores to get whatever food and produce they can get their hands on. The problem is, the fresh vegetables, like tomatoes, do not have a long shelf life. However, there is a solution! Learn how…
Dehydrated Strawberries – A Yummy Healthy Treat
Strawberries are a sweet healthy treat that even the pickiest eater can enjoy. Certain times of the year, these scrumptious little morsels go on sale. It is easy to stock up on these bright colored berries by freezing or dehydrating. Today I am going to walk you through the process of how to make dehydrated strawberries. Strawberries Health Benefits Strawberries are a low sugar fruit full of vitamin C, folate, potassium and manganese. They are great for controlling blood sugar and heart health. These high fiber berries can be added to many recipes. Unfortunately, they do not have a long shelf life when fresh. Below, I will show you how…
Drying Basil From the Garden in a Dehydrator
One staple in our garden every summer is Sweet Basil. I have gotten to the point where my basil self seeds every year and is little work to maintain. We usually have 5-10 large basil plants growing at any one time. This creates an abundance of basil that needs to be preserved for winter use. To make preserving quick and easy, I like drying basil from the garden in one of my two dehydrators. Basil is such a versatile herb. I use it almost daily in recipes from Pizza to Roasted Potatoes. Purchasing dried herbs at the grocery store can be expensive, which I find odd since growing most of…