A friend gave me four tomato plant starts and I put them in the raised bed that was filled using the hügelkultur method a few years back. This gives them all the nutrients they need and they sure do produce! They’re above my head at this point. I picked 64 ripe tomatoes one week and […]
Tag: dehydrating
Dehydrating Your Lovage
Lovage is basically a French celery. It’s four times as flavorful as the traditional celery I’m used to in an American grocery store. So, you don’t need a lot of it. I cut the leaves off so I only have the stalks left. I feel like Morticia Addams when I do this. Oh, and remember […]
Drying Herbs
I love to dry herbs. This is especially useful when you can’t eat at the speed your plants are producing. I love my Cosori Food Dehydrator. It has been great because it is square-shaped (the round dehydrators waste corners of counter space) and has the volume for drying a lot of herbs at once. You […]
Dried Cantaloupe
I enjoy dehydrating fruits and vegetables that aren’t typically sold dehydrated. While it’s easy to get dried apricots, for example, it’s difficult to find dried cantaloupe. Since our melons have started producing, I decided to try dehydrating some of the fruit. I used my own melons from the garden to make the dehydrated fruit. I […]
