The good thing is that most of the stuff I needed to dehydrate could all be done at the same temperature.
Every time I pull out my dehydrator, I typically only use 3 or 4 of the 9 trays at a time, but this time around, I filled up all 9 trays. And when it was all done I felt so proud of myself for accomplishing that much dehydrating in just a few hours :)
That is one of my most favorite things about my Excalibur, the fact that I could do a lot of dehydrating all at once, as opposed to my old dehydrator that only had a small capacity.
Here's what I filled my dehydrator with:
PUMPKIN PUREE
It was time to "get rid" of the pumpkins that the kids decorated back in October. And when I say "get rid", I meant, puree and dehydrate into pumpkin powder for recipes I could use during the winter months :)
I only had the one pumpkin left, but I couldn't believe how much puree it gave me. I didn't dehydrate everything, as I was thinking of using them in recipes in puree form as well (I'll post about these recipes next time)
Not too long ago carrots were on sale for 3 lbs for $1 and since my carrot powder stock was running low, I decided to stock up while carrots were on sale. I peeled and steamed a bunch of carrots, then pureed them in preparation for dehydrating them and turning them into powder.
We had some over riped bananas that had to be used. Of course I could have gone the banana bread route, but I thought it would be great for variety to make some banana snacks. All I did was cut the bananas in thin slices, and arranged them on the tray to dehydrate.
FRUIT AND VEGGIE LEATHER
As it happens, I also had a bunch of home made yogurt that I had to use up, so I decided to make two kinds of fruit and veggie leather while I had the dehydrator out (I'll share this recipe in another post soon). I couldn't believe how fast my kids ate up these fruit and veggie leathers up. It was gone so fast that I had to whip up another batch the following day....hahaha...
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