Recipes

Protein Cottage Cheese and Oatmeal Pancakes

Looking for inspiration, I picked up a copy of Clean & Delicious: Eat Healthy and Get Healthy With 100 Whiile-Ingredient Recipes. It came out in 2023. I was flipping through when I saw her recipe for protein pancakes, which are gluten-free and based on oats and cottage cheese. They have no leavening, so the pancakes… Continue reading Protein Cottage Cheese and Oatmeal Pancakes

Recipes

Instant Mug Meals: No Cook Chicken Salad

A new recipe to join our "Instant Mug Meals" collection. With a couple freeze-dried ingredients you can have a quick no-cook lunch, snack or even dinner for the trail. The recipe itself is gluten-free, but as always read the labels on mayo packets to be sure. I served it on street taco sized tortillas, Mission… Continue reading Instant Mug Meals: No Cook Chicken Salad

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Freeze-Drying versus Dehydrating: Frozen Peas and Corn

We have been running comparisons with Freeze-Drying versus Dehydrating with various ingredients, to see what the outcome is. This has meant that we are running both our Harvest Right freeze-dryer and our dehydrator running nearly non-stop of late. We have the large size Harvest Right freeze-dryer for reference. This post is on drying frozen petite peas and sweet corn. Both are blanched,… Continue reading Freeze-Drying versus Dehydrating: Frozen Peas and Corn

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Pantry Staples: Freeze Dried Honey Butter In A Jar

Combining two freeze-dried ingredients lets you have a delicious spread in minutes. It can be mixed up and stored in a glass mason jar for long-term storage. Honey crystals are worth picking up, they melt quickly into recipes and are handy for tea and such. Now, do know that honey crystals are not normally just… Continue reading Pantry Staples: Freeze Dried Honey Butter In A Jar

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Pantry Staples: Nearly Instant Cream of Soup Dry Mix

Canned cream of "X" soups are handy for sure, but they are a questionable blend of ingredients and they are going up in price monthly. Where we live a can is $2 now for what used to go on sale for .50 cents a can just a year back. Now...if you had a dry base… Continue reading Pantry Staples: Nearly Instant Cream of Soup Dry Mix