Dehydrating Summer Fruits and Veggies

I borrowed my dd's dehydrator and dried some strawberries. I wanted to try drying some fruit this year. I've been looking at dehydrators and trying to decide if I should get an expensive one or a cheap one. After trying my dd's (hers is 1000 watts) I think it worth paying a little more, but for now I may just borrow hers.

I also want to dry some veggies. Dehydrated foods are a good thing to have in your emergency supplies. So I'm looking for ideas of what veggies would be good to dry. My dd likes to do red peppers. I think as things are in season I will try them and see how they do.

Linda

Blue Cheese and Roasted Garlic Salad Dressing

I was going to make roasted garlic mayo this time, but I've been having trouble with my tummy so I decided to save that for later. Instead I made a salad dressing. You start with your basic mayo ingredients but with 1/2 c. of oil instead of a cup. I use extra virgin olive oil, then you add in addition some vinegar, I used 2 tabs. of red wine vinegar, about 4 cloves of roasted garlic and some blue cheese. There are a lot of other ingredients you could use, but this is what I did. I add extra blue cheese in the salad. I'm having a lot of salads and it's nice to have the dressing ready.

Linda

Orange Coffee

I made the recipe I had posted here. It was pretty good. If you want to make it a bit fancier top it with whipped cream and grate some orange rind on top.

Linda