Zucchini Chips Experiments

Zucchini post, margination, sans nooch, pre dehydration.

Part three of "Stuff I Bought Before I Got Sick Therefore I Had to Find A Way To Preserve It" involves some zucchini I picked up at the produce stand. I don't even know why I buy zucchini. I made myself sick of it a long time ago and usually just buy it to let it go bad in the fridge in the next few weeks- but since I had the dehydrator out I decided to get crazy. I found a formal recipe filled with pretty pictures, and immediately decided that I didn't have the energy for that. I took my spiralizer and two zucchini, and got to work using the slicing attachment. After a few seconds I decided to cut a slit down the zucchini, so now I have something slightly resembling a chip. From there a squirted a few drops of greek dressing, and quickly decided that would be way too strong for this, so I poured copious amounts of lemon juice on the zucchini, along with some garlic infused olive oil and plenty of fresh dill I bought for a pickling project I have also dogged off. I let the mixture marinate overnight, and the next day I ground some pepper and himalayan salt over the mixture, and added nutritional yeast (nooch) over half of the mixture for a variation. I gingerly laid the zucchini onto the trays and placed them on my ancient Ronco dehydrator, given to me years ago by my dear Pawpaw, and now we wait. And wait. And wait. Patience is a virtue when you're dehydrating things. I hope all my effort and patience pays off.

Always An Underachiever

It looks like my posts are becoming almost a yearly thing. I'm getting off a weird sickness right now, and with my reemergence into the real world I've gotten back into making foodstuffs. Simple things, as I've got a toddler and am still not 100%, but anything is something, I suppose. We are in the height of summer, and fresh fruits and veggies are in season, ripe and in abundance. I picked up beaucoup strawberries Thursday of last week before I got sick, along with a cucuzza (which delighted my little one), and some creole tomatoes. By the time I felt a little better Sunday night many of the strawberries had spoiled, the rest I sliced in halves and popped in my trusty way old Ronco dehydrator, and Elle was thrilled with the result. After that I loaded the dehydrator with some figs from my mother in law's tree she was kind enough to send my way, and they should be done tonight. Home dried fruits are my favorite- it's been years since I've messed with the dehydrator, but they are so easy and honestly that's all I can muster in this insufferable Louisiana heat.