What dried cherries should look like: You want small plump raisin-like pieces. You don’t want to dry them to the point of being hard little rocks if you want them for snacking or adding to granola, etc. Just to give you a view – this batch was a little over-dried. I used them ...
Freeze-dried eggs, on the other hand, are compact to store and rehydrate easily for both cooking and baking. We tend to freeze dry raw eggs, as they’re the most versatile and they work well in all manner of recipes. You can even rehydrate them and quickly cook them into a hot fres...
Rehydrate dried mushrooms: Place the dried mushrooms in a large bowl and pour 1 quart of boiling water over them. Set aside. Elise Bauer Brown the onions, celery, carrots, fennel: Heat the olive oil over high heat in a large stockpot. Add the chopped onions, celery, carrots, and fennel...
The day you try to come up with an idea for dinner and decide that, think as hard as you might, there are only two possibilities, grilled chicken drumsticks or pesto, and you’ve had them both already this week. It’s not that you don’twantto cook other dishes – it’s that you...
Some foods rehydrate well after dehydration, likedried carrots. Other foods don’t dehydrate well, and they won’t ever be the same. Freeze drying, on the other hand, works well for just about any food. Anything from freeze-dried meat to Freeze-dried fruit, even freeze-dried cheesecake…...
Since dried chilies are too hard to blend, you need to cut them into sections, remove the seeds, soak them in hot water for twenty minutes to rehydrate before adding them to the food processor. The number of chilies in this recipe yields a moderately hot curry but is less than those fi...
You need to rehydrate the fungus before use, and it will expand to a few times its original size. After that, remove the stem of the fungus, which is tough, and cut them into smaller pieces for use later. Dried shiitake mushrooms need to rehydrate like the wood ear but take longer ...
Dried beans are very hard, so soaking allows them to rehydrate and soften. For 10-12 side dish servings, rinse 1 pound (about 2¼ to 2½ cups) dried navy beans or great northern beans in a colander under cool running water. Be sure to sort through the beans to remove any debris...
Wakame (optional):If you’re using dried wakame, rehydrate dried wakame (4g for 2 servings) with 1 cup of warm water for 10 minutes. Then, discard the soaking water and drain well. Green Onions:Finely slice the green onions the best you can. For reference, use half a stalk of green...
Soak the dried fruit and capers in the orange juice while you prepare the rest of the dish. Cook the lentils and freekeh or wild rice separately in boiling water until just tender – I cook the lentils for about 15 or 20 minutes and the freekeh or rice for longer; you want them to ...