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How to Cut Whole Chicken Wings

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 […]

Food Preservation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Dehydrating Mushrooms for Maximum Longevity

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 […]

Food Preservation: Dehydrating Pineapple

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 […]

Freeze Drying Lunch Meat

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 […]

Freezing Blueberries

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 […]

Freezing Raspberries

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, […]

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