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What Is the Best Way to Preserve Garden Vegetables?
If you're looking for the most versatile way to preserve a large garden harvest, freeze drying has some clear advantages. It works with a wide variety of vegetables, creates lightweight food that can be stored without refrigeration when packaged appropriately,...
Freeze Drying Your Garden Harvest
A productive garden can go from a few ripe vegetables to more food than your household can eat in a surprisingly short time. Tomatoes ripen together. Green beans seem to double overnight. Zucchini grows faster than you can give it...
What Foods Can You Freeze Dry?
One of the biggest advantages of freeze drying is the variety of foods it can preserve. From fresh fruits and vegetables to cooked meals and desserts, freeze drying gives people the flexibility to preserve many of the foods they already...
Summer is the season of burgers on the grill, corn fresh off the cob, spicy homemade salsa, creamy potato salad, and tangy lemonade. If you have a home freeze dryer, everyone's favorite party foods are easy to make ahead, and...
Sneak More Vegetables Into Meals With a Freeze Dryer
If getting more vegetables into your diet — or a picky eater's — is part of your goals this year, hiding them inside food you already love is one of the easier ways to get there. Freeze-drying makes that especially...
How to Freeze Dry Your Garden Harvest
A productive garden can go from a few ripe vegetables to more food than your household can eat in a surprisingly short time. Tomatoes ripen together. Green beans seem to double overnight. Zucchini grows faster than you can give it...
From Garden to Pantry: How One Family Preserves a 4,500-Square-Foot Garden
Every gardener eventually faces the same challenge. After months of planning, planting, watering, and weeding, the harvest arrives all at once. Tomatoes ripen faster than they can be eaten, herbs need to be picked before they flower, berries don't wait,...
3 Must-Have Vegetables for Your Freeze-Dry Garden
Gardeners without a freeze dryer tend to plant conservatively, worried about overdoing it. With one, that worry mostly disappears — you can plant generously, knowing the surplus won't go to waste. These three vegetables are especially worth growing extra of....
5 Sauces to Take Grilled Vegetables Further
Grilling vegetables is simple, but the sauce is what turns them into something worth repeating. Here's the basic technique, plus five specific sauces to try. The Technique A ridged grill pan made for a barbecue grate makes vegetables easier to...