BWCA Messageboard |
 | ||||||||||
 | ||||||||||
 | ||||||||||
 | ||||||||||
 | ||||||||||
 | ||||||||||
 | ||||||||||
 | ||||||||||
 | ||||||||||
 | ||||||||||
| ||||||||||
Gunflint Northwoods Guided Trips
|
||||||
 Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Camping Recipes Dehydrating veggies Reply
|
View BWCA Photo and Trip Report Contest Page
Poll: What is your favorite month in the BWCA/Q?
| Previous Messages: | |
| Author | Message Text |
| Blackstick |
08/18/2007 11:46AM Here is an excellent source of information on dehydrating. The author is a backpacker and has devoted part of the book to that aspect of dehydrating. Plus there are around 100 different recipes listed. I refer to this quite often, as I like to bag my own meals. I believe I bought my copy of the book on Ebay. If the link doesn’t work, the book title is Mary Bell’s Complete Dehydrator Cookbook. http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Dehydrator-Cookbook-Mary-Bell/dp/0688130240/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5913536-3476849?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187454057&sr=8-1 |
| Grandma L |
08/10/2007 08:20AM I have dehydrated veggies and meats for years. Some don't come back so good. They are tougher than usual. Jayhawk was right on. Any of the frozen veggies are the best for dehydrating because for the prep the factor does in blanching and chemicals. But, I have stopped doing much of my own and am now using the pre-done packages from the grocery store. Knorr makes some good Veggie pouch items and the soup mixes are all excellent and have both the spices, veggies and pasta or beans all together in good portion sizes. I just dehydrate a lean grade of burger to add and we have good easy meals. I also split the Hamburger Helper type meals for my son's solo trips. He uses about 1/2 package for a meal and it is small to pack, easy to cook and tastes great. |
| Basser8239 |
07/17/2007 08:59AM That sounds like a good idea. If you dried enough veggies you could make stew. Just take along a packet of dried/chipped beef and add it to the dried veggies with some broth cubes, add water and you have stew. The chipped beef is kinda salty so you wouldn't need to add any spices. What about drying fruit. I love banana chips but when I tried drying them, they turned to leather. I coated them with a corn syrup/water solution to give them a sweet taste. Maybe next time I'll leave out the solution and dry them by themselves. |
| eagle93 |
07/02/2007 01:49PM Just remember to soak them in a baggie an hour or so before use. |
| L.T.sully |
07/02/2007 11:41AM I had no problem doing them that way, for my trip a few weeks back. |
| Beemer01 |
07/02/2007 08:04AM Thanks for the affirmation. Google completely failed me on this... kept offering me the names of companies based in China happy to sell be container loads of dehydrated vegetables. |
| jayhawk |
07/02/2007 07:18AM I think that's fine. The frozen veggies should have been blanched before packaging to kill the enzyme that makes 'em spoil. If you're dehydrating veggies out of the garden you'll have to give them a quick blanch before drying... basically just cooking them as though you were serving them. |
| Beemer01 |
07/02/2007 07:07AM I searched for this but came up empty. I have a dehydrator and spent the weekend dehydrating frozen green beans and corn. The results look OK.... but is this the right technique? Thought I should ask the BWCA group before I get two days into Quetico and discover I did this wrong. |
Copyright © 2002-2013 www.bwca.com- Legal Notice DMCA