Busy! Not much being posted lately by way of recipes, but a busy toddler, a few unexpected things in 'life' we're dealing with and of course the state of things being what they are right now, I'm also trying to do some canning, dehydrating and 'stocking up' just in case.
If you follow me on Instagram you might have already seen this, but I just love seeing the results of dehydrating foods!
This is the dried green pepper bits from... SIX (6) large green bell peppers!
It's so awesome! After drying, each 1/4 cup of diced pepper basically equals about 1 fresh.
I store bell peppers in various ways, but for our family, I do a few bags of green peppers frozen, and the rest I dry as I tend to use them in soups and stews, which are perfect for dehydrated (or freeze dried).
Red and yellow peppers are mostly cut into strips and food sealed and frozen as I use them in stir-fry, and fajita's, etc. It's super easy to cut them into diced if needed as well from frozen state.
(Just because we are on topic - as a side note, I buy containers of sliced mushrooms and immediately put them into the freezer as they are unless I am using them that night or the next day. I throw them into soups, stews, the pan to saute', etc. straight from frozen state as well).
