New Favorite Recipe Site

I have loved the Dehydrate2store website as well. I'm also creating quite a beautiful selection of dried foods. Who knew that food storage could be so lovely?

This week I'm on to drying spinach, broccoli, and some more carrots. I've had my dehydrator for a couple years now but didn't realize what an important appliance it was until now. I'm using it almost every day, getting my food storage built up with foods I never thought would be a part of my food storage collection.

I found a great site I wanted to share with everyone which I have a new favorite recipe from it's 101cookbooks.com . It's a recipe collection, full of natural and healthy recipes from a woman named Heidi Swanson. Here's my favorite Quinoa recipe thus far.

Look at all the healthy benefits of Quinoa (pronounced "keen-wah"):

"Quinoa's protein content is very high (12%–18%).Unlike wheat or rice (which are low in lysine), quinoa contains a balanced set of essential amino acids for humans, making it an unusually complete protein source. It is a good source of dietary fiber and phosphorus and is high in magnesium and iron. Quinoa is gluten-free and considered easy to digest. Because of all these characteristics, quinoa is being considered a possible crop in NASA's Controlled Ecological Life Support System for long-duration manned spaceflights." (Taken from wikipedia)

Quinoa has such a light nutty flavor and should be (easily) eaten more often! ... Not to mention that it is a great food storage product.

-Claudia

Dehydrating

Lately, I have been a dehydrating queen. I have always loved to make dehydrated apples and bananas but I just recently came across a wonderful website that's all about dehydrating. I am so grateful for people like this who take the time to share their talents on line. Even though she is in Pennsylvania I can still learn from her all the way across the country. (The Internet isn't all bad.)

There are so many things you can dehydrate and it is wonderful for your food storage. Also, if you purchase a dehydrator that lets you control the temperature, you can make raw foods for your long term food storage. I love this because enzymes are so important for our health and you cant get enzymes in canned food. Check out her website it's Dehydrate2store.com and happy dehydrating!