I came across a really neat recipe for snack bars. Today I made some of these with dates and crispy pecans. For those not familiar with Nourishing Traditions, crispy nuts are basically just nuts soaked in brine for 12-24 hours and then dehydrated till crispy. Not only are they more digestible, they taste significantly better. [...]
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Snack Bars
Posted in drying, recipes, sweets on April 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Dried Pineapple
Posted in drying, sweets on March 13, 2007 | No Comments »
My family’s favorite dried food is pineapple (next to sprouted wheat cookies of course). They’re like eating candy. I can fit about 2 pineapples in my dehydrator. I just slice them up and throw them in without any doctoring whatsoever.
Unlike the variety you buy in stores, these don’t have any added sugar, have been dried [...]
Sprouted Wheat
Posted in baking, drying, sweets on January 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I wanted to try making some cookies. My initial thought was to start with the Nestle Tollhouse recipe and tweak it with some minor substitutions. I ended up using the recipe for carob chip cookies from Nourishing Traditions using chocolate chips instead of carob chips.
Of course this required the use of sprouted wheat flour. [...]
Dehydrator
Posted in drying, gadgets on January 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I had been using a $30 el’ cheapo dehydrator for a while. The trays were all cracking and on top of that it had no temperature control so it was heating the food hotter than I wanted. I had been using it primarily for making Nourishing Traditions style crispy nuts.Enter the Nesco Gardenmaster food dehydrator [...]
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