More dehydrating madness!

Zuke Chips

Thinly slice zucchini. Then sprinkle with a little garlic salt and dehydrate about a day to a day and a half. Enjoy!

They are ultra-light and tasty! Satisfies my need for something crunchy like potato chips. I'm still playing around with the seasoning a bit. My sprinkle method results in some chips ultra salty and others hardly at all. So if anyone has any other seasoning flavor ideas or methods, I'm willing to try.

Btw, thats not a zucchini from my own backyard. Still! It's so depressing! I might try this with summer squash though, at least those are growing a little bit.

Banana Chips

Well, since I haven't been able to eat anything out of my own garden yet I've turned my attention to other things. Like trying my hand at dehydrating things. These are my banana chips.

What? You've never seen red bananas before? C'mon, when I was in Brazil I learned there were more than 20 different banana varieties and these happen to be the Strawberry Kiwi Banana variety! Sort of.

I don't think an actual strawberry kiwi banana exists {though there was a banana maca which means apple banana variety in Brazil}, I made this one into a strawberry kiwi banana by dipping the slices in strawberry-kiwi jello powder before dehydrating them.

Other upcoming flavors we intend to try out include:

Cinnamon Sugar banana chips
Honey glazed banana chips
Regular plain ol' banana chips
Maybe other jello flavors

Mmmm! Tasty snacks!

The State of My Garden

Wow, I haven't had an Independence Days update in quite a while. I'd like to say it is because I have been so busy in the throes of preserving from my bounteous garden. But really its because my garden hasn't been doing much. Literally.

I mean, I don't even have any zucchini for heaven's sake! Zucchini!! That grow like weeds!!! It's been making me very sad.

I haven't been able to harvest anything from my own yard yet. Everything I've done has come from someone else's garden~~my cherries were from my mom's house, as were the apricots I just picked yesterday. But my yard? Well, I have ONE yellow squash that is growing, ONE honeydew, a bunch of peppers {they're the ones doing the best out of everything!} and my tomatoes so far all turned out like the above. I don't know whats wrong with them. But I must figure it out to try and save the rest of my crop.

~Sigh~ What's a girl supposed to do?