[Nfb-krafters-korner] {Disarmed} Fwd: [fooddrying] Re: Storing Dried Foods as Powder

[Henrietta Brewer]

Here is another message with a neat idea and the address at the bottom. 
enjoy
Henrietta

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> From: "geekling" <geekling at yahoo.com>
> Date: September 5, 2011 8:24:49 AM EDT
> To: fooddrying at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [fooddrying] Re: Storing Dried Foods as Powder
> Reply-To: fooddrying at yahoogroups.com
> 
> If you really want to have a healthy food, don't be shy and embarrassed about it. I eat healthy food just about exclusively and the taste is great.
> 
> Firstly, you know how spices can turn something you may not like into something which is wonderful smelling and tasting as well as even better for you than without the spices.
> 
> In order to be able to call a powder 'healthful', you really need to rehydrate it. You body is unable to digest anything which is not a liquid. That it why your Creator gave you teeth and saliva.
> 
> If you mix your green powders with tomato sauce and spices and let the powders reabsorb liquid, it will still taste 'delish'. You can do this rehydrating separately or together with your sauce.
> 
> If you really do want a healthy pizza, hold the wheat bread aside and use a slightly dehydrated upside down Portobello mushroom as your bread. The curled edges of the mushroom will hold the sauce and the mushroom pizza will be 'delish'.
> 
> Kathy
> 
> --- In fooddrying at yahoogroups.com, **Cee** <cee_psp at ...> wrote:
> >
> > I put some powders in a spice bottle or baby food jar in the cabinet.  I vacuum seal the main amount in glass jars.  The powders in the sealed jars don't clump as long as they are sealed.  When I need to refill the smaller jars, I take out some powder from the sealed jar then reseal it.
> > 
> > 
> > Â Â Â Â  Cee
> > 'Worry doesn’t take away tomorrow’s troubles, it only robs today of its peace.' 
> > 
> > --- On Sun, 9/4/11, BRENDA PHILLIPS <brendasue420 at ...> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > From: BRENDA PHILLIPS <brendasue420 at ...>
> > Subject: Re: [fooddrying] Storing Dried Foods as Powder
> > To: fooddrying at yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Sunday, September 4, 2011, 7:58 AM
> > 
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> > Oops...I'm in the middle of drying tomatoes and hope to get a message on the
> > clumping real soon! I'm thinking yours may have not been dry enough (?) ya
> > think?
> > 
> > My specialty is dry chard, onions, zucchini, peppers, spinach, and any other
> > green stuff I don't normally go out of my way to eat (the chard!!!) and make
> > homemade pizza with my (thrift-store-bought bread maker) and sprinkle this
> > stuff on it and turn pizza into a "health food" LOL!!! but it is really
> > delish... I use a lot of basil and oregano (also dried) and you can't tell
> > it's a good-for-you food. Love it!!! My newly dried tomatoes will make it
> > even better!
> > 
> > I dry everything that can't get away from me...!
> > 
> > Brenda-Utah
> > 
> > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:42 AM, ssflaura <ssf at ...> wrote:
> > 
> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > I turned some dried tomatoes into powder, about a cup's worth. It started
> > > to form a hard clump in the jar within a few days. I'd like to do this on a
> > > larger scale because it's so convenient to have on hand. What is the best
> > > way for me to keep it from clumping up and becoming brick-like?
> > >
> > > I thickened some spaghettis sauce with tomato powder and zucchini powder
> > > and it was wonderful - great flavor and none of the watery sauce separating
> > > out.
> > >
> > > I'd like to do this with some of my other dried foods. I"m also thinking
> > > about beets, zucchini, onion, pumpkin. Do any of you have experience with
> > > this? What are some of the best foods to store in this manner? I'd like to
> > > hear about any attempt you made with turning foods into powder that didn't
> > > work also and perhaps why it didn't store well.
> > >
> > > Thanks much,
> > > Laura
> > >
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> > Die fat...or get tough...
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