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3 Gourmet Pizza Recipes With Freeze-Dried Toppings
Pizza is routinely cited as one of America's most popular foods — commonly-cited industry figures put U.S. consumption in the billions of pies a year, with kids ages 3 to 11 frequently naming it their favorite food, and pepperoni as...
How to Freeze-Dry Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes pack in vitamin A, vitamin C, manganese, copper, potassium, dietary fiber, and several B vitamins — and freeze-drying them turns a seasonal vegetable into something you can keep on hand year-round, whether whole slices or ground into a...
How to Freeze-Dry Squash (3 Ways)
Squash shows up in dozens of varieties, from sweet butternut and acorn to mild yellow squash and pumpkin (yes, it's a squash too). The colorful skins carry beta-carotene and other trace nutrients, and each variety freeze-dries into something a little...
10 Ways to Eat Better and Eat Together
Eating better and actually eating together as a family tend to run into the same obstacle: time. Pre-prepping proteins, produce, and full meals with a freeze dryer removes a lot of the day-of effort behind both goals, so neither one...
How to Freeze Dry Pineapple at Home Freeze-dried pineapple is sweet, crisp, lightweight, and packed with concentrated pineapple flavor. It makes an easy snack straight from the bag, but it can also be used in trail mix, oatmeal, baked goods,...
How to Freeze-Dry Apples for Year-Round Snacking
Freeze-drying is one of the few preservation methods that doesn't shrink or toughen apples — it keeps the aroma, flavor, color, shape, and nutritional content close to fresh, which is more than most preservation methods can claim. Canning and dehydrating...
Freeze-Dried Mac and Cheese with Stacy Lyn Harris
Stacy Lyn Harris — cookbook author, gardener, mother of seven, and a guest chef on RFDTV's Rural Heritage — grew up in the South making hearty, from-scratch macaroni and cheese for family dinners. Her version, adapted from "Served Up With...
4 Ways to Freeze-Dry Zucchini (Besides Noodles)
Zucchini is easy to grow, and most gardens grow plenty of it — often more than any one household can eat fresh. Its mild flavor makes it easy to sneak into almost anything, from quick breads to stews, and it's...
Granny's Garden Vegetable Soup, Freeze-Dried
Stacy Lyn Harris — cookbook author, gardener, mother of seven, and a guest chef on RFDTV's Rural Heritage — shares a soup recipe passed down from her grandmother and father. "I could live on this soup forever," she says of...