Today I bought asparagus and baby yellow squash to roast. I snapped the ends of the asparagus and was about to throw them out when I remembered someone on a preserving foods Yahoo group saying they dried the ends and flaked them to use in various ways.
So I dug my dehydrator out from under the stairs. I trimmed off the dried out woody bottoms from the snapped ends. Those almost trashed ends filled one tray.
And since I had the dryer going, I figured I should make better use of the electricity and fill more of the trays. A quick look in the fridge found a tired looking orange and lemon. I sliced those up and they filled a tray. Once they are dried, I can crumble them up and use to flavor drinks or icing or anywhere you would use extract/flavorings.
I still had 2 trays empty. I looked again and found a partially filled serving bowl of fresh pineapple pieces. That filled another tray.
I couldn't find anything to put on the 4th tray, but I'm pretty proud of what I did find to preserve in that 5 minute search.
A final frugal doing.... After we ate supper and I put the leftover roasted veggies away, there was some olive oil remaining in the bottom of the pan. I cubed up the end of the home-made bread and tossed the cubes in the oil. I put those in the fridge and will toast them tomorrow. They'll be great on a salad.
I found tonight that if you leave garlic cloves in their skins, they'll roast without burning. I'll stink tonight but mmmmm~~~ they were good!
Tonight's Menu:
Roast Vegetable Medley
Home-made whole wheat/oatmeal bread
Rhubarb cobbler with vanilla ice cream
I plan to upload new photos of the grand-twins tonight too. Be watching.
Hugs
Kay
** "It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends." -- Euripides (480-406 BC) Greek Playwright
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