Tag: Food Preservation

Planning ahead is always a good idea, especially if you have a thriving garden! Cucumbers tend to grow in abundance, making home-canned pickles a perfect way to preserve the harvest. These Garlic Jalapeño Dill Pickles are bursting with bold, zesty flavor and just the right amount of heat. The best part? You can easily customize […]

When you can get whole chicken wings at the grocery store for $1.99/lb., you should buy a bunch to make delicious wings at home. The problem is separating the wing tips from the wings and the wings from the drums. Don’t let that intimidate you from snagging a great deal. You only need a cutting […]

I like to buy mushrooms when they are on sale and dehydrate them for soups, stews and other dishes. You can store dehydrated mushrooms for a couple of years. Make a mushroom powder from the dehydrated mushrooms for seasoning; dehydrated mushroom powder is called umami. Use mushroom powder as a flavoring in savory dishes, such […]

I love playing around with my food dehydrator! I got a great deal on pineapple for .87 at a local grocery store and knew I had to see how well it dehydrated. Let me tell you, it turned out great. One pineapple filled my entire dehydrator that has seven shelves. The next time I find […]

Experimenting with my new Harvest Right freeze dryer has been a lot of fun. This is the first time to freeze dry any kind of meat. I had a lot of deli meats in the freezer, so I thought this would be a good type of meat to start the process. Preparation Fold the slices […]

I got a bunch of blueberries at Aldi for 92 cents a pint recently. If I buy berries from aldi, they must be consumed immediately, or they must be frozen immediately. When I get an awesome deal like that, I save one pint for snacking, and I freeze the rest. I love having fresh blueberries […]

I felt very fortunate that I recently snagged some fresh raspberries on sale for 87 cents a package. I was all over that! I made a special trip to the store to get some. I promptly froze them, so I could use them in recipes in the future. With grocery prices going up, up, up, […]