Dry mixes for pesto are not cheap, if you can even find them in the local grocery store's dry mix aisle (or the top shelf in the pasta aisle, which is often bare at our stores). It's also not as fresh as when you make it yourself! And no thickeners, no gums, no starches added.… Continue reading Pantry Staples: Dehydrated Pesto Mix
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Pantry Staples: Powdered Egg Replacer
For a number of years we baked without eggs, as our youngest was allergic to chicken eggs. It's not an uncommon allergy in children, but fortunately is one of the few food allergies that can go away as a child ages. He was fortunate, and it did go away. But for about 6 or so… Continue reading Pantry Staples: Powdered Egg Replacer
Growing Food In An Off Year Of Weather
To say the growing season of 2022 was trying...is putting it lightly. As I have talked about since mid winter in early 2022, this winter/spring and into mid summer was cold and wet (see a post I did end of April "The Cool Spring"). Trees didn't bloom at all for some. The bees came out… Continue reading Growing Food In An Off Year Of Weather
Dehydrating Mushrooms
Overall I prefer freeze-dried ingredients for long-term storage over dehydrated, but there are a few things i far prefer dehydrated. Mushrooms are one of those things. The act of dehydrating changes the structure of the mushroom. Freeze-drying mushrooms leaves them intact and raw, but when you dehydrate them, the heat slowly cooks them. It removes… Continue reading Dehydrating Mushrooms
Growing To Eat Versus Growing For Hobby
One of the things I do yearly is test my boundaries. The boundaries of growing plants. To see what can I push to the edge, and still work. But to explain it, not that many years ago we were urban homesteaders, living off the luxury of having our mini-farmstead right out the back door, with… Continue reading Growing To Eat Versus Growing For Hobby