Living in the Willamette Valley is a food lover’s paradise. We have just about everything but tropical plants here, so lots to enjoy. Each summer’s harvests seem to start with strawberries and then on to other fruits before the veggies start producing. So I’ve been dehydrating yummies since the end of May all for your potential future enjoyment.
- Strawberries from this year’s crop. Sweet and yummy.
- Bananas from the grocery store…they LOOKED too far gone by the outer peel but were about 98% usable to dry. So remember that when next time you see “old” bananas marked down!
- Figs from last season soft and chewy.
- Cherries Most are sweet but one or two pie cherries might have snuck in.
- Concord grape fruit leather – okay, I’ll come clean…. I tried to make fruit roll-ups but they didn’t turn out to be rollable…so they were cut into pieces.
- Pears from the start of this year’s harvest.
- Apples dehydrated last fall.
- Cantaloupe is pure candy. Unbelievable how this experience convinced me!
- Raisins from last fall’s Thompson grapes.
- Raspberry fruit leather from this season that also was a fail as a fruit leather but provides that zingy sweetness perfectly.
