It’s the end of the final harvest time for many gardeners around the country. Cooling temperatures and more rain give vegetable plants a boost, so you’re likely to end up with more than you can handle. Traditionally, gardeners would either can or freeze their surplus for use in winter. However, those two methods tend to do […]
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Freeze Dried Treats
Freeze drying fruits and vegetables can help you to preserve your own healthy, organic foods from your garden. However, if you own a Harvest Right freeze dryer you can also freeze dry some fun treats for those days when you’re ready for a little splurge. One of our favorite freeze dried treats that’s also popular […]
Severe Food Allergies? You Need a Home Freeze Dryer.
Recently one of the Harvest Right team was traveling in Europe and overheard a woman in a restaurant attempting to explain to a waiter, in broken Italian, that she had broad and severe food allergies. She couldn’t have fat, dairy, gluten, eggs, beans, corn, and a whole other list of foods. It was a difficult […]
Freeze Dried Snacks for Runners
Cooler temperatures are the start of 5K and marathon training season in many areas of the country. With the growing popularity of ultra marathons and races that last multiple days, freeze dried food is starting to hit the radar of the running community. You can buy prepackaged freeze dried food, but freeze drying your running […]
Freeze Drying the Harvest
Hard to believe, but it’s harvest time once again. This is actually one of our favorite times of the year. The heat is starting to break, the garden is going crazy with a finale of more vegetables than we can eat in a week, and we get to share that bounty with friends and neighbors. […]
What Are You Feeding Your Dog?
We’ve had such a great response to our conversations about freeze drying pet food that we’ve asked our friends at Breeder Retriever to be our guest bloggers today: When you pour dog chow into your pet’s bowl, do you wonder what’s really in those little brown pellets? Processed dog food from big-name brands can contain […]
A Culinary Expert Tries Freeze Drying
John Placko, Culinary Director at the Modern Culinary Academy and Bar 120 in Toronto, had been interested in the idea of freeze drying food since he was a kid. Like many of us, he was introduced to freeze drying when he heard about “space ice cream”, or freeze-dried ice cream sent up on Apollo 7. […]
Freeze Drying Cottage Cheese and Tomatoes
One of the best summer lunches (or snacks) is a bowl of cottage cheese with ripe cherry tomatoes. The acid in the tomatoes cuts through the creamy cottage cheese for the perfect alternating-bite experience. Low-fat cottage cheese is a healthy way to stay full, and tomatoes are full of lycopean, which helps fight cancer. Freeze […]
Freeze Dried Quick Meal: Salmon with Pesto
Salmon with pesto sauce is one of the best things you can make for a nice, Sunday dinner and then easily freeze dry leftovers for your next camping trip or for use during an emergency. Salmon is so good for you – it’s high in omega-3 fatty acids. Pesto sauce is made from basil, pine nuts, […]
Freeze Drying Bread
There are so many good reasons to freeze dry bread. If you don’t have a large family, that loaf of bread will probably go bad before you can finish it. Or, you buy a delicious loaf of fresh French bread but you don’t need to eat it all – even though you really want to. […]
