1 November 2024
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Last week we cooked a dish of lamb meatballs in quince halves and it was a bit on the sour side. We probably didn’t needed extra quince cooked with the onion round the base and, even then, it might have … Continue reading
10 October 2024
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I’ve been using my dehydrator a fair amount in recent weeks. It is the one I picked up in the autumn of 2021 and I’d say that it earns the cupboard space it takes up for portions of the year. … Continue reading
12 October 2022
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Today has been a harvest day in the back garden – lots of tomatoes and over 13kg of apples! That’s great but it also demands attention. Some apples will keep quite well but, even if we had an apple with … Continue reading
8 February 2022
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Celery salt is an savoury seasoning that sounds familiar to me but I don’t recall trying before. However, after a bit of random searching the other day, it turns out there’s not much more to it than the name suggests. … Continue reading
7 November 2021
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Recently, instead of throwing out the skins from the pumpkin I processed, I dried them out in my dehydrator and then blitzed them into a powder. That, in turn, went into loaf of bread I made this weekend. Did it … Continue reading
31 October 2021
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I’ve been wondering if I could make potato crisps with my dehydrator. Attempt one was not overwhelming. I finely sliced a potato in my food processor and dried the resulting slices. Meh! After then doing some research, it looks like … Continue reading
14 October 2021
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That is what I think it costs, in electricity at my supplier’s current rate, to dehydrate a batch of slices from four or five apples. Having got the dehydrator just over a week ago, Jane asked whether it was viable, … Continue reading
9 October 2021
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I made a beetroot bread last month with chunks of beetroot. It was tasty but, having made it by hand, it had distinct chunks rather than the more integrated effect I used to get with a bread machine. You can … Continue reading
7 October 2021
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More dehydrator experimenting today – I tried beetroot. That wasn’t such a success as the tomatoes and apples I’d done so far – the slices ended up dull, hard and accentuating some of beetroot’s natural earthiness. Perhaps much thinner slices … Continue reading
5 October 2021
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My first batch of dehydrating finished today – a selection of tomatoes that I’d started yesterday, sprinkled with a little dried thyme and sea salt. Wow! They look like jewels and taste so sweet! It’s tempting to munch all the … Continue reading