Being I work till dark everyday and can't get much done in the evenings besides shower, shave and eat, I have been lacking on posts. I think I made up for it this week though.
After all the little things I did on Saturday like the Bio Sand Filter and the Sawdust Log Press plus some other odds and ends, I found myself without much to do on Sunday.The first thing I did was install a men's urinal in my shop.
Yes, that is a funnel going out the wall held on by bailing wire.
Next, my mom calls me and tells me the local grocery has potatoes on sell for 19 cents a pound. Being I did not have that great of a potato harvest this year I jumped on the chance to put some up. So I ran up to the store and got 55 pounds of taters.
I began by pealing every one of them by hand. Great for the compost bins, hard on the hands.
Enough of all that so I went and grabbed my meat slicer and went to town on those potatoes.
After blanching the slices and soaking them in lemon water for a few minutes I put them on the dehydrator. 
The finished product is several jars nicely filled with a serving of potatoes I can use in all kinds of dishes.
I think the shelf life for these is four years.
I also shredded some and vacuum sealed them up for hash browns.
No, that wasn't all the taters, I dehydrated twenty pounds, kept ten pounds to eat, made ten pounds of potato salad, and shredded fifteen pounds for hash browns.
I can tell you this, my feet were tired when it was all done.
That's all I got done on Sunday and it's all I got for now.
I never thought of shredding them and putting them in the frig for hashbrowns. Will have to do that now that I have a little space in the freezer. Maybe with some onion added.
ReplyDeleteBecky, I blanched them first and then soaked them in lemon juice and then drained. I used the food processor with that little plate that shreds them. It was much easier than by hand.
DeleteSounds like a good Sunday to me! Wow .19 a pound! Would love to find a deal like that, I would take a day off work to process. Sounds like a good excuse to me.
ReplyDeleteYup DFW, it was too hard to pass up so I had to just bite the bullet and get it done.
DeleteMan, I didnt know all the ways to store potatoes!!! I got a 10# bag the other day for a dollar, next time I'll get a few bags and store them. Thanks for the info!!!
ReplyDeleteThat was a good deal Kelly. Yup, there is even more ways than this, like food milling them down and then dehydrating to make potato buds. These are the way I put mine up if I have an over abundant harvest but this year it was not so good. I am glad I got these. Now I am not so worried about this winter.
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