I was at REI the other day and checking out the commercial meal options, to see if any caught my eye for review. I came across one lone Heather's Choice meal, a Shepherd's Pie. It was hanging on a lonely peg, with no other meals by it. I decided to take a chance on it.… Continue reading Commercial Meal Review: Heather’s Choice Shepherd’s Pie
Tag: Dehydrated
Freeze-Drying versus Dehydrating: Egg Noodles (Making Instant Pasta)
We have been running comparisons with Freeze-Drying versus Dehydrating with various ingredients, to see what the outcome is. This has meant that we are running both our Harvest Right freeze-dryer and our dehydrator running nearly non-stop of late. One of the things you cannot buy easily (even online) is "instant pasta" - outside of using… Continue reading Freeze-Drying versus Dehydrating: Egg Noodles (Making Instant Pasta)
Interchanging Dehydrated and Freeze Dried Ingredients: A Summer Of Recipe Development
When I first started developing recipes, back in the dark ages of the early 2000's, I for the most part only used dehydrated ingredients in the recipes I was developing. At the time, freeze-dried ingredients were hard to find, and there were few options to buy. Freeze-dried was mostly only complete meals, or if you… Continue reading Interchanging Dehydrated and Freeze Dried Ingredients: A Summer Of Recipe Development