Trail Cooking

Dehydrating Kale and Making Green Powder

It's been a bountiful year on the homestead for kale production. Cold wet springs lead to greens growing well, and now that the 4th of July is past, the heat has kicked off the growth. I have 3 varieties this year going on our land on Whidbey Island in Washington State. We face the Salish… Continue reading Dehydrating Kale and Making Green Powder

Food Finds · Trail Cooking

Commercial Meal Review: Heather’s Choice Shepherd’s Pie

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

Freeze Drying · Trail Cooking

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)

Food Finds · Trail Cooking

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