Ten years ago I purchased my first dehydrator and I’ve been hooked ever since on preserving food using this method. While many think that it’s a hard process to dehydrate your foods, it’s really quite simple. Plus, you don’t clog up precious freezer space, since it’s all shelf-stable.
Title: The Dehydrator Bible
Authors: Jennifer MacKenzie, Jay Nutt, Don Mercer
Publisher: Robert Rose
ISBN: 978-0-7788-0213-6
Whether you grow your own food, buy it locally from Farmer’s Markets or Farmstands or even buy it from a regular supermarket, seasonality still affects its price and abundance. Therefore, it makes sense to preserve food for those times when it’s not as plentiful, or not available at all. Drying food is a wonderfully tasty and easy way to do this.
This book includes more than 150 recipes for dehydrating herbs,and seasonings, fruits, vegetables, meats and fish, and more than 250 delicious recipes that actually use the dehydrated foods as ingredients so you can put home-preserved food to work for you in your home, RV, boat or campsite.
The easy-to-follow drying instructions & time guidelines will make even a novice cook feel like a seasoned professional in no time. So plant a few extra rows of tomatoes or beans, pick a heap of strawberries at their peak or buy that big basket of freshly harvested carrots. Then load up your dehydrator. You’ll be thrilled to be cooking with your own dried foods the whole year through.
My Thoughts: One of my favorite cookbook publishers happens to be Robert Rose. I’ve been collecting their cookbooks for the past 5 years and love them! They’ve become my go-to resources and I’m proud to have over 25 of them in my personal collection.
I’ve used a dehydrator on & off for ten years now and every time I get a good harvest from my backyard garden, I dig it out and I get busy preserving some of our food. With that said, I’ve only done 5-7 different basic things over the years and now I’m ready to jump in with both feet and do even more. The Dehydrator Bible is a MUST-HAVE if you want to learn how to dehydrate your family’s food.
The recipes are super easy to follow and I love that they’ve included helpful tips along the way. The photography inside the book is fantastic and I appreciate that the author’s included recipes that use the foods that you’ve dehydrated as an ingredient. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a book that includes that!
You can find this book and hundred’s of other great books at Robert Rose and you can purchase it directly from Amazon for a great price!
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