The week is rushing by, and its February already!
I got some extra wife-points by turning some of the cherries into cherry ice cream (Should tally my points and see about getting a present when I reach 100) 😀
The photo doesn’t do it justice, but I was in a rush to get it to the table and scoff.
It turned cold today – and rained off and on. So I really have nothing too exciting garden-wise to report from Norwich House.
I did actually book our Overland Track hike for mid-March so we are committed now!
I am slowing trying out more with the dehydrator to arrange some sensible lightweight meals to take along with us
One of my page followers, Judy, gave me some links via facebook to groups that are keen on dehydrating, which is awesome so I can ask questions and hopefully get together some simple meals that taste good.
Not sure if I had mentioned how awesome the beef jerky that my husband made recently (it really isn’t the most photogenic subject so you will just have to imagine the goodness) Anyway – that’s going to be a welcome snack on our hike
It is generally a 6 day affair – but of course people have suggested taking enough food for 8 days ‘just in case’
I did some meatballs tonight in a made up sauce (just garden stuff – tomato grated zucchini etc) I thought I could try to dehydrate the leftovers.
We ate it on couscous which wasn’t bad, but I think I would prefer pasta. The couscous was so quick to prepare tho! That certainly gives it bonus points!
I saw some dehydrated meal packs in the camping shop – wow!! Somewhere between $16 & $20 per meal! I KNOW I can do better than that!
Will be grateful for any and all suggestions 🙂
We will be ‘practice cooking’ whatever I dry over the next little while so we can be confident of having our skills up to scratch BEFORE heading out on the great adventure!
Very much looking forward to it 🙂
Hope everyones week is going nice and smoothly!
Cheers!
Hey Lisa, just remembered one of my favourite almost no-cost dehydrator ‘recipes’ – onion salt.
I freeze the green tops of spring onions and clean bits of leeks (and cut the root parts with enough stem to plant and regrow them) until I have 200-300g, then blend them up with some garlic, an onion and some chives until it’s a liquid paste. Spread on a piece of baking paper or a dehydrator roll-up sheet if you have one, and dehydrate at whatever temp you do vegies on – 52c, I think. When it’s dry enough on the edges, you can break it up into pieces and turn them over and keep on dehydrating until everything is crisp. Then blitz again with an equal quantity of salt (table, sea, Himalayan, Murray River, Celtic, whatever you like) for a lower sodium, tastier version of salt. I usually add some blitzed up dried lemon peel as well.
Also, totally changing the topic, I’m in Sweden at the moment and have just seen some a-mazing Northern Lights. Have you ever seen Aurora Australis at your place?
oooo Love the sound of the onion salt!! Thank-you!
Wow – Sweden!! How wonderful – the Northern Lights must be the most amazing thing ever!
I haven’t caught the Aurora Australis myself yet… thats a work in progress… Hoping to get lucky during the walk!
have fun and stay warm!!!
I wished I had some advice but I have only dehydrated jerky. I have seen dehydrated whole strawberries on Pinterest that look delicious but then everything on Pinterest looks easy, perfect, and delicious. Meat sauce at the bottom looks so good! Of course, we always love any kind of fruit leather too.
I’d like to try the strawberries! I have done some fruit leather and enjoyed that in the past… another nice thing to snack on during the day!
Agree – pinterest food always looks a LOT different (and prettier) than what ends up on our plate! haha – at least it all tastes good! 🙂
And then there’s this vegie stock powder recipe. I just use what I’ve got, so there’s usually no parsnips in mine, but I dehydrated most of the vegies that were sitting in the fridge just before we came away on this trip and ended up with a lovely batch of stock powder, some of which is travelling with us!
http://talesofakitchen.com/raw/homemade-veggie-stock-powder-raw-vegan/
What a great idea! (and yes I found you in the spam folder!!) Thanks for the link!!