Preserving
Ideas for how to preserve the produce you have.
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Apricot Muffins
Since we have a freeze dryer and a seemingly endless supply of apricots. I have been messing around with recipes for using freeze dried fruit in muffins. It has been a long process of trial and error. Either they if I got the flavor right, the texture was off. Of if I got great taste and texture they looked flat and unappealing. But I keep trying different variations and I think I finally figured out a version that I like. These are everything you want muffins to be, light and fluffy with an apricot flavor that was subtle and delicious. And, as a bonus, they look pretty, like muffins you…
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Energy Bites
I haven’t been gardening as much since we moved to our new house. (Here is the post about that if you are interested in details about our move.) Partly because our yard is smaller, but mostly the drought last year really derailed our garden. But I do have a lot of freeze dried food in our basement. I think it’s a good idea to use it as much as I can. It won’t last forever. And even though I we haven’t restocked it as much this past year, we do have plans to plant more this year. In any case, I am always thinking about new ways incorporate the food…
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How to Remove Peach Peel
The end of summer is here, it is finally peach season! Maybe you have your own peach tree and you have been patiently waiting for those beautiful peaches to ripen. Or maybe you stopped at a fruit stand or farmer’s marked and bought some. However you found your peaches it is now time to eat them. I love peaches, but I hate eating the skin. I know some people aren’t bothered by it, but I just can’t enjoy a peach with the skins on. They are just too fuzzy! So how do you remove the peel of a peach? Here are my two main methods (if there are others I…
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Apple Chips
I started this post back in September or October, but it has just been a crazy fall and winter so far. But I have a goal to be more consistent at posting the things we are working on, so hopefully you will hear from me more regularly. This is also my first time using the Amazon Associates program. I will get a bit of a commission if you click on the link and purchase the product from Amazon. I have always liked apple chips. Growing up we could buy them from the Church I belong to (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) for food storage. For any who…
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Pizza
Friday night is our pizza and movie night. I love that I get to use my home made tomato sauce. And this dough recipe is so easy! Check it out.
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Granola
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Freeze Dryer
We bought a freeze dryer! It has been so much fun. We had been thinking about it for quite a while. We kept seeing commercials from Harvest Right about their home freeze dryer. We talked about it for a long time. As you know we get a lot of produce and I like bottling things. But I feel like so many of the methods for preserving foods reduces the nutritional value. Freeze Drying is different. It preserves food and makes it shelf stable for many years without changing the nutritional value much at all. So we both really wanted to get a freeze dryer it was just a question of…
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Applesauce
I love applesauce. I love eating it. I love making it. And I really love how it makes my house smell. Cooked apples with cinnamon …mmmmm… nothing really beats that. The other major plus for me is how many apples it takes to make applesauce. If you have an apple tree you know what I am talking about. When you get a big crop of apples there is just no way that you can eat them all before they start going bad. This is what we were dealing with this year. Applesauce is a great way to use a lot of apples and make them shelf stable. Then you can…
