Monday, February 24, 2020

Upcoming Experiments

One experiment has already been completed. Some time ago I bought three pork roasts on sale, baked them and froze them. Yesterday I shredded the thawed roasts and stirred in BBQ sauce, packed the mixture into half pint jars and processed them for 65 minutes at 10 lbs. pressure for my altitude. I got 24 half pints in the first canner load. There is still a large bowl of the mixture in the fridge that I will can up tomorrow. One jar didn't seal, so I heated that up for my lunch and found to my delight that it made a really good BBQ pork sandwich.

My grocery order went in today. One pound bags of rice were on sale, so I ordered 6. I had seen a couple of videos showing how to make instant rice. According to the instructions, the rice is rinsed, cooked and spread on mesh lined dehydrator trays and dried. To use, it is said that when boiling water is added, it rehydrates quickly. I'll let you know how it works.

Another dehydrating experiment I have been wanting to try is dehydrated pasta. Jennifer over at 'Prep School Daily' has instructions to do this. Her article on the subject tells us why we would want to have dehydrated pasta in our food storage. She also has recipes for instant meals using the dehydrated pasta. As I have some other things I am working on this week, I likely will give dehydrating pasta a go this coming weekend.

I just love trying new foodie things. It is nice to have a variety of heat and serve foods on the shelves. I will post the results of the experiments a week from today. Until then, keep on prepping.

10 comments:

  1. The bbq pork is excellent. #1son.

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    1. Yeah...it is pretty good, if I do say so myself. :)

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  2. Can we call you professor now?? My wife would rather use instant rice over the old school rice.

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    1. Nope, Rob...No professor here. I just like to try different methods of preserving food for storage. I am not fond of the commercially made instant rice, so dehydrating my own is worth a try.

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  3. I just love it when you're experimenting! Can't wait to read all about it.
    And, your BBQ-anything sounds yummy.
    Cheers, SJ in Vancouver BC

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    1. SJ...It is fun to try new ways to stock the shelves, especially if the experiments work. :)
      The BBQ pork turned out better than I had hoped and was easy to can. Win - win!

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  4. I have thought about doing the same to see if the spaghetti noodles would work. Now, you can let me know...lol.

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    1. Linda...I'm drying elbow macaroni, but if that works, I don't know why spaghetti noodles wouldn't work, too. A while back, I remember watching a video where someone dehydrated leftover spaghetti complete with the sauce. I don't know if I am brave enough to try that, but it was interesting. :)

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  5. Vicki~ I'd planned to make and can pinto beans and a small batch of baked beans this week. Murphy showed up and we have spent the last few days de-cluttering the old laundry room, transferring my canning jars and cleaning products into it. Then it was going through another room and tossing junk, old clothes to the Salvation Army and the VFW, books to the Senior Center. I did manage to get 6 pounds of diced potatoes, white corn, mixed veggies and 8 pounds of green and yellow squash dehydrate. BBQ Pulled pork sounds yummy. Red

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    1. Red...I am pretty sure Murphy has taken up residence in my house. :) Plans never seem to work out the way they should. But on the up side, those projects of yours are done before things get too dicey. I heard that today the CDC sent out warnings to prepare for a "significant disruption" due to the virus. Good time to get all those little ducks neatly into a row, I think. My grocery order for Thurs. includes over the counter cold and flu meds as well as lots of frozen fruit juices and ingredients for chicken noodle soup. Will do a post on the soup over the weekend. I am just amazed at the amounts of food you are able to dehydrate! And yes...the bbq pork turned out even better than expected. Got 36 half pints of the stuff. Take care.

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