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June 2020 On-The Cheap Vegetable

Dehydrating

Red potatoes with box grater.

I picked up two $1 bags of red potatoes na decided to deydrate them for dry storage as I an running out of room for my freezer storage and now my canning jar storage room. I am addicted to storing food in so many different ways like our Ancestors used to do! This just draws me closer to the old ways of preparing and storing the garden harvest as our past generations used to for survival. If you can understand that’it is just a bond that pulls me to the past ways of our families.

First you wash the red potatoes from all dirt. You may need a scrub brush if fresh from the garden.Mine were from a produce store so it was not too hard to get them cleaned up. Next you use the grater on the slicer side as you want circle cut potatoes. Slice 8 medium sized red potatoes and put ito a bowl of water that covers them.

Have a big pot of boiling water ready so that after you drain water off of potatoes’ you can drop into boiling water for 5 minutes only’ then pour into a strainer to drain and cool a little while. Now arrange as single file as you can on your dehydrator trays’ some overlapping is ok. Plugin and dry for 3 hours while rotating trays around one time. These have to be completely dry with no dampness anywhere.

Slicer side of grater.
All this from 8 medium red potatoes.

Now store these in a gallon freezer baggie. I did two times of dehydrating for 16 potatoes total to fill this bag up. When I order myself some oxygen absorbers I will put a few in each gallon baggie and then store baggie in a tote so no critters can get in to them and these will last 30 years.

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Frugal June 2020 Vegetable

Vegetables are awesome this way!

I found a bag of green beans and as usual I adore being frugal in all things, so they only cost a dollar in the mark-down bin.

I took them home and snapped off the ends and snapped them in two. Next I washed them and let them dry out so they would hold the olive oil and spices.

I put all into a large bowl and lightly poured oil over them and hand mixed together. Time for what-ever spices you like now. I chose accent-pink salt-garlic powder-onion powder and taco seasoning in the bottle.

I oiled my three pizza pans lightly and put the string bens on all three pans, Then I added more accent and taco seasonings lightly along with garlic powder also.

I baked these in the oven on 350 degrees for one hour, while turning beans along the way. They shrivel down and reduce in size after cooking for an hour, to have a crunch to some of them. Taste test and if needed add more taco seasoning as the bottle of spice is weaker than the packets of spice. Now enjoy and try not to eat them all at once as they are really awesome this way.

This is my recipe that I created to share with you so keep it or keep coming back to check out my web-page to always have it stored for you. Thank you for viewing my web-site!

Prepping the string-beans.
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Vegetable

Saving Garden Seeds

In this day and time, it might be a wise thing to collect and save seeds to plant for next year’s garden planting time. And also to save every year for next year and so on.

The first thing is to always but seeded watermelons’ like old times the vegetables and fruit that still have the seeds in them. If you store them in little freezer bags into one large freezer bag’ you can always find them in the deep freezer later on when you need them.

Banana and Bell Peppers ready for deep freezer.
The very best cantalope and watermelon seed from a produce truck. From Immockalee
Fl. to Live Oak Fl.

So as you eat the fruit or vegetable please save your seed and try to wash out most of the pulp by using a sieve. But do leave some pulp in. Now take a little tiny bowl and add seed and cover with water and add a small spray of watered down bleach to this.Sit in the kitchen window sill so you don’t forget about them for 2 days.

Next drain off water and set back in window sill to dry out. The bleach makes the seed more bug resistant at planting time next year! Then put in tiny sandwich baggies and label and date each bag. Only save the very best tasting(seeds). Now store in gallon size freezer bag until next year at planting time.

I have been doing this for more years than I can count! And you can also do this and grow the very best. If you get a great tasting tomato from the store or produce truck etc. Be sure to save the seeds this way for next year’s bounty! I grew my tomatoes from a store package this year but they are Rutgers some of the very best tasting tomatoes out there that is if I can fight the bugs off of them. They are tough this year. So I am embarrassed to show these tomato plants from seed in my apartment garden but I will.

I so miss having land with 3 gardens going at once! But I still love to garden. Here are my skimpy plants as I have had to de-leaf bug damage so many times. But I have Diazenous Earth sprinkled lightly on them for now. It is safe for vegetables.

Tomato Plants.
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