Dug this bad boy out for the first time this season.
Such a happy day for me yesterday!! Tomato sauce!!
Friday, September 28, 2018
Holy Tomatoes!
We've had a very happy garden moment! I picked 17.5# of tomatoes on just one picking. If you've been reading my blog regularly, you know we planted about 100 plants and got under 20# since they started producing. I wanted to climb the roof and shout it to the world, I was that happy.
How to preserve tomatoes for sauce making. Rinse and dry tomatoes whole. Freeze in freezer bags or freezer containers. Don't forget to label so you know the exact weight. Thaw and use for sauce making recipes. By the way, the skin comes right off of these when they thaw. It didn't help me with my sauce making (I toss them in a pot, and run through a sauce maker), but if you don't have a sauce maker I thought I would share.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
How to Make Onion Powder and Onion Flakes
It's time to re-stock my onion powder and onion flakes. Here is how you can make your own using a dehydrator (you could also use your oven if the temperature goes low enough).
Simply peel your onions, and chop them up. You can use a non-electric hand chopper or simply dice them up quickly in a food processor. You can also dry them in slices if that's what you need for future meals, but they are too large to fit into a coffee grinder to make into powder.
Spread the chopped onions on parchment paper lined dehydrator trays, and dry in your dehydrator according to the instructions it comes with.
When the onions are dried, simply break apart your diced onions for "flaked" onions. Place the remainder in a small coffee grinder and grind until it becomes a powder.
Store the onion flakes in airtight glass jars in your spice cabinet. These will also collect moisture, so you may want to store them using my next tip.
Store the onion powder in your freezer to keep it dry and prevent it from hardening. If you place it in your cabinet it will quickly harden, unlike garlic powder. You can also put some white rice, a few beans in it, but I typically don't shake mine out. I measure with a measuring spoon, and it's much easier for me if I don't have anything in the onion powder. Shallot powder also hardens over time.
I recycled a jar the size of a half pint to store my onion powder, using a screw top lid. My canning funnel fits in it perfectly to pour it out of the grinder easily.
Simply peel your onions, and chop them up. You can use a non-electric hand chopper or simply dice them up quickly in a food processor. You can also dry them in slices if that's what you need for future meals, but they are too large to fit into a coffee grinder to make into powder.
Spread the chopped onions on parchment paper lined dehydrator trays, and dry in your dehydrator according to the instructions it comes with.
When the onions are dried, simply break apart your diced onions for "flaked" onions. Place the remainder in a small coffee grinder and grind until it becomes a powder.
Store the onion flakes in airtight glass jars in your spice cabinet. These will also collect moisture, so you may want to store them using my next tip.
Store the onion powder in your freezer to keep it dry and prevent it from hardening. If you place it in your cabinet it will quickly harden, unlike garlic powder. You can also put some white rice, a few beans in it, but I typically don't shake mine out. I measure with a measuring spoon, and it's much easier for me if I don't have anything in the onion powder. Shallot powder also hardens over time.
I recycled a jar the size of a half pint to store my onion powder, using a screw top lid. My canning funnel fits in it perfectly to pour it out of the grinder easily.
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