Excalibur Dehydrator -- was Re: Yoghurt, tomatoes, dry curd cott. ch.

July 17, 2007

>> I have an Excalibur on the way. Other than

fruit leathers and yogurt, specifically how do

you use it? Could you dry veggies and then grind

them to flour and make breads and maybe pasta out

of them? What would be the purpose of dried

veggies, I'm not really sure? I'm trying to think

of some creative ways to spice up this and make

things more appealing to my husband and more

rewarding to my Aspie son who has been limited on

his diet in some shape or form since he was 5

(he'll be 8 in 2 months). Plus I want to get the

most out of it. We are in the early stages still.

I'm introducing some stage 2 foods now. <<

Bonita,

I couldn't survive without my 9 tray Excalibur!

In point of fact, I have TWO of them!

Along with my Maverick grinder, the dehydrator is one of the best items around.

I use it to dry peeled, sliced (longwise)

zucchini (courgettes) for dipping " chips " and for

making T's vegetable lasagna. (My mom is on a

salt-free diet, so I draw the water out of the

zukes with the dehydrator instead of salting them as in the recipe here.

http://uclbs.org/recipes/maindish/tveglasagna.php

I use it for making meat sticks -- salt-n-pepper,

pepperoni, breakfast sausage, Cajun BBQ, and blackened beef.

I use it for making yogurt.

I use it for drying all kinds of fruits for

snacks and for mixing in my yogurt -- toss

home-dried fruit in your well-dripped yogurt, it

soaks up liquid and thickens the yogurt even

more, while plumping up the fruit. Tart firm

apples, peeled, cored and sliced with an apple

such as this one

http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=116220

become amazingly sweet when dried.

I make my own onion and garlic powder.

I dehydrate cheese crisps.

I make " sour cream and chive chips " and dehydrate them.

I bake cheese bread sticks and dehydrate them

into something I call cheese biscotti.

The uses are only limited by your imagination...

and if yours fails at any point, just ask.

Someone is bound to think of something. I bought

mine after I'd been on the diet a whopping 3

months and after I'd had it a month, I looked at

Harry and said, " I need TWO! " (But it took me

another three years to get the second one because

there were other things we had to have.)

Oh, and, uh -- I also use it for quick drying

delicate clothes that shouldn't be tumbled --

spread them out on the trays, tuck them in the

dehydrator at a low temp, and dry. <g> But that isn't SCD.

— Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

July 17, 2007

Marilyn,

You must be the one getting a cookbook together. I definitely would want one of

those. My motto is the one who dies with the most cookbooks wins! I don't live

terribly far from you. I'm in Pensacola. I actually met my husband while we

were both visiting New Orleans, so it will always be a little special for that.

Thank you for all the ideas! I can be creative and my husband is usually a good

guinea pig as he loves to eat. I sure would like the recipe for a few of the

meats like pepperoni and breakfast sausage. Is there any way to get any of

them?

Also, on the zucchini sliced and dried, do you cook it first and then slice and

dry it or just slice and dry it?

Bonita

newbie to SCD

son SCD almost a month, Asperger's, OCD, ADHD

Excalibur Dehydrator -- was Re: Yoghurt, tomatoes, dry

curd cott. ch.