Dried Vegetable Flakes

I bought a book at a garage sale a few years back, "Dried gifts in a jar".  Mostly it's soups, stews and chili's. I read through and oogled a few of the recipes. I didn't make any because I couldn't find dried vegetable flakes in the spice section at the grocery store. I finely went online to several of the organic bulk spice sites. Guess what? Dried vegetable flake are the simple triad of soups and stews. It's dried carrots, celery and onions. You can also get variations on combinations of dried vegetables. I got all excited reading through some of the more "exotic" combinations and had finely settled on 1 oz Mediterranean, 6 oz original and 6  oz of the Italian. With shipping it would have come to $24.00. I nearly fainted! When I had my breath back I thought...WAIT A MINUTE! I have a food dehydrator. After a little trial and error I learned some veggies need to be blanched (dropped in boiling water for 45 second to 2 minutes after brought back to a boil). Which did better drying and cooking very thin and which did better albeit longer drying time thicker cut. I dried green pepper, carrots, celery, potato's, garlic and so on. I also learned I like them better stored solo. Sometimes I want more carrots in an individual recipe, sometimes none.

I went on to create many dried soup recipes. I'll be posting them as I cook with them and fine tune the recipes.
Not only do they store and keep well, they do indeed make a wonderful gift.

Welcome to Wild Thistle Farm

Again Welcome to Wild Thistle Farm

We begun this journey on March 13th 2015, this is going to be a learning process. We hope you will travel along with us. We are starting over again, both of us in our 50's. We want to share with you what we have learned, and what our member have also learned. We are striving for an online self reliant community. Our mission is sharing! We will regularly include what's up in our garden, how and what we grow, store and cook with what we produce. What tools do double and triple duty. Off grid projects. And defense of our property, animals and home. We welcome everyone's voice around the globe to contribute to our common goal of healthy, happy and productive homesteading.

We are doing this on a 1 3/4 acre property in a northern climate, in the north we have our own set of growing struggles and a shorter growing seasons. We look forward to this community growing as we travel together on this journey.