The green beans were done for the year so we pulled the plants up and then picked the beans off. We got a nice bunch and decided to go ahead and make some more dried green beans. Last week I got almost 1/2 gallon jar full and they will come in very handy. The first cool day I am going to make a pot of vegetable beef soup. I have been wanting some for a while now, I can almost taste it now. I love soup weather, vegetable beef soup, potato soup, chili, chicken noodle soup, chicken vegetable soup, chicken and wild rice soup, taco soup and beef stew.
I wish I had more dehydrated peas and corn to use for soup, maybe next year I will do more of them. Just called the hardware, yes hardware store where I get 50 lbs of red potatoes for $8. They should be in this weekend so I will call again next week to make sure they are in and will be getting 100 lbs. I will can some, dehydrate small cubes for soup and dehydrated some shredded potatoes. I have a couple recipes I use shredded potatoes in and making dehydrated shredded potatoes is very easy and they keep forever. Last time I made some I had them 2 years before I ran out.
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1/2 gallon jar of dried green beans that I did last week. |
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Dried green beans. |
I'm dehydrating potatoes now. I dehydrated a bunch of shredded potatoes and I will dehydrate more shredded potatoes tomorrow. I was not aware you could cut them into small cubes & dehydrate, so I may have to try that next! How small should the cubes be and how long does it take them to dehydrate?
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~Taylor-Made Ranch~
Wolfe City, Texas
I use them in my soups so I just cut them the size I would as if I was using them fresh, around 1/2" to 3/4" cubes. I also have dehydrated sliced potatoes and used them to make cheese potatoes.
DeleteThanks Paula - I'm going to give it a go. I love the look of the shredded dehydrated potatoes in the jars in my pantry and I love to use hash browns in my scrambled eggs so I know they'll be used, but I really do like the thought of popping cubes in my winter soups too!
Delete~Taylor-Made Ranch~
Wolfe City, Texas
Great ideas Paula, as always. Thanks for the tip on the potato cubes, very clever! I think I'll try dehydrating small carrot cubes as well!
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Tracey