Cooking & Baking

An Excalibur dehydrator is a great investment. I use mine for everything from drying herbs (FAST) to veg (diced small for soups or sliced, especially good for tomatoes, which you can then whiz in the blender for use in soups and pasta sauces), pureed fruits for fruit leathers or cut any way you like for snacks (banana chips) or pies, and on low heat for maybe a half hour for seeds (like from melons) to use when you’re planting the next season, and I even use aquafaba (the water from a can of beans--anything from garbanzos to black beans, which is an incredible egg replacer) to make meringues that are light as can be.

It’s a counter hog, but well worth it if you’re into DIY groceries.

Half a cup of aquafaba, whipped (DON’T get anything oily in there or it deflates!):



Look—meringues!