We eat a ton of garlic in this house! Atleast 5LBS a month. When I find it cheap, I stock up and dehydrate them in a variety of different ways. We love roasted garlic, adds great flavour to recipes. Roast your garlic, your way! You can dehydrate cloves whole. They just take a while. I prefer to take a fork and smooch them all down.Dehydrate on dehydrating sheets. At 135F about 14-20 hours, I flip when about 10 hours in. once done let cool. Break into pieces, and store in air tight container.Love our dehydrator. It’s half the price to leading brands but works just as good!
This is one of the things I love to do. Is make homemade powder/spices. Cant get any fresher then that! This is one of my favorite ones. I add this to a lot of stuff and you don’t need to use much! We bought a case of peppers for 1$ ya I know 1$ for 25lbs. We bought 4 boxes lol. I canned up a lot of pickled peppers! There was no way I was throwing away all the tops, insides, scraps. They went on dehydrating sheets and into the Dehydrating they go. They smaller your pieces, the less you have the less time it will take. These were thicker and a lot of trays. I dehydrated at 135F about 14hours.Once dried and cooled. I take a coffee/spice grinder and grind down to a powder. I store in mason jar. I combine a few of my powders to make different spices. Excellent pepper flavourLove our dehydrator. It’s half the price to leading brands but works just as good!
Celery, celery, celery, what can I say, this vegetable fluctuates so much in price it astounds me. One week it will be 97cents, next week it’s 7$, what the heck? I want my celery but I can’t nor would pay that! So we buy in bulk when it’s super cheap $5 for a 24count case! I dehydrate them cubed, sliced, large for stirfrys and small for soups. Celery is practically all water so they literally turn to nothing once Dehydrated and take up to next to no room.Dehydrate 135F for about 12-14hours. 24 whole celery fits in 2 quart jars, wow! We just love DehydratingLove our dehydrator! It’s half the price to leading brands but works just as good!
I love Dehydrating garlic! Some say it’s too strong for inside the house, we don’t find. We love it. These are sliced with my food processor. Which I do the most with the garlic.Lay out on dehydrating sheets. Dehydrate at 135F for about 8-10 hours.10lbs dehydrated sliced garlicIve been making my own garlic powder for years. Doesn’t even compare to store bought this stuff is excellent and gold in my opinion :0)Love our dehydrator! It’s half the price to leading brands but works just as good!
When we make spaghetti sauce, we go big! We make a huge batch and we freeze for a later day! 2-2 1/2 pounds ground beef, I prefer lean 2 large onions, cut 2 green peppers, cut 8 celery stalks, cut 3 jalapenos, cut 1-2 large carrots, diced 6-8 mushrooms 6 garlic cloves Italian seasoning Oregano Basil Salt & pepper 6large cans of crushed/diced or whole tomatoes (we prefer scarpones fire roasted ones, any will do!) 6 cans tomato soup 2 cans tomato sauceI like to add all the cut veggies & spices to a bowl.Mix well.
I use two pots and divide beef up. Brown up the meat for a bit, put half the veggie mixture in each pot. Stir well. Cook for about 6-8minutes.Then divide all your cans of tomato stuff into each pot. In summer time when tomatoes are a dime a dozen. We use way less canned tomato stuff and make from scratch!
Stir, and simmer for a couple of hours.We got supper for four made out of this, 5 spaghetti sauce meals for family of 4 (roughly 5cups in each large freezer bag) for freezer and I also made up 8 lunch containers!My spaghetti is a big hit in our family! I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.