When I first started developing recipes for outdoor cooking being able to find individual freeze-dried ingredients was nearly limited to peas, corn, green beans, rarely at times a "mixed vegetables" blend, apples and a few berries - such as strawberries and raspberries. This of course was at the dawn of the modern internet and companies… Continue reading Freeze-Dried Versus Dehydrated Ingredients
Tag: Dehydrating
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
Plant-Based Cream Of Mushroom Dry Soup Mix and Mushroom Rice Recipe
This is a two part recipe. The first is for the Cream of Mushroom Dry Soup Mix, the second is for a savory Mushroom Rice recipe, that is FBC (Freezer Bag Cooking) friendly. This recipe is a revision of a recipe we created years ago, for Vegan Dry Cream of Mushroom Soup mix. There are… Continue reading Plant-Based Cream Of Mushroom Dry Soup Mix and Mushroom Rice Recipe
Dehydrating Mushrooms
Overall I prefer freeze-dried ingredients for long-term storage/hiker's pantry over dehydrated, but there are a few things I far prefer dehydrated. Mushrooms are one of those things. The act of dehydrating changes the structure of the mushroom. Freeze-drying mushrooms leaves them intact and raw, but when you dehydrate them, the heat slowly cooks them. It… Continue reading Dehydrating Mushrooms
Freeze-Drying versus Dehydrating: Frozen Peas and Corn
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. We use the large size Harvest Right freeze-dryer for reference. This post is on drying frozen petite… Continue reading Freeze-Drying versus Dehydrating: Frozen Peas and Corn