rawpriestess
08-05-2005, 01:38 PM
I was posting in a different thread and thought this might be a fun thing to start a thread about.
I went to a friend's house for Thanksgiving last year, and I took a ton of raw foods for everyone to share, they loved the dehydrated crisp zucchini chips, so (of course) I left them there, so the next day, he emails me that they have gone soggy on him, (I guess he put them on a plate in the fridge, not back in the ziplock I took them in.
So, I told him to dehydrate the, well he didn't have a dehydrator, so I told him he could try the oven, and how to do that, well somehow I miscommunicated, and he had soggy, hot zucchini chips, ICK
I took the pesto stuffed mushrooms to a freind's house for dinner, and she didn't have a dehydrator, so she tried to warm them up in the microwave, burst those little suckers all over the inside of her microwave, and they were terrible, and all crumbly, ICK
I took my creamy corn chowder to a friend's house, and I had put it on the stove to "fingerwarm" just so it was a little nicer, this is when it was snowing at Christmas, and I didn't know her stove, so I turned the dial to HIGH, not LOW, (as the letters had rubbed off the knobs) in only a few seconds, the stuff was boiling, and I (of course) didn't eat it, but Dragggon said it lost all of it's flavor and sweetness. It also got a little curdly. ICK
I was at a feast once, put on by a really well known famous raw chef, and I was only a helper in the kitchen, the chef putting on the feast needed a bunch of fresh herbs, and greens, so I brought a ton out of our gardens, it was Yule feast, so we only had winter greens etc.
I gave him some of the herbs and greens, and then I had another bag that was just some arugula plants that didn't look very good to eat, but I told him he could plant them and have fresh arugula later on in the spring.
When I gave him the Arugula plants, he said, let's just toss it in the salad for flavor, I tried to explain that it had baby slugs on it, and he didn't even care (I spent 2 hours trying to pick them out of the large salad he had made) ICK
(needless to say, the last time I helped him in the kitchen)
This same chef at the same feast had made some really wonderful terrene to place avocado mousse on top of, he wanted it warm, but there was no dehydrator there, and he hadn't brought his own. So, he placed them in the oven on warm, but they had parchment paper on the bottoms of them, and the parchment caught on fire, which caught some grease in the oven on fire. So, not only was some of it "cooked", it all tasted like cooked burned grease. ICK
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Now for the really fun part
Recipe mishaps
I have made muffins that were hard little rocks that even my dog wouldn't eat, because I dehydrated them too long.
I have made these same muffins, that I tried to reconstitute by letting them soak in water to reabsorb some moisture, to then try to re-dehydrate, that were even worse the second time around ICK
I have made an onion, cream, cucumber salald, where I added waaaaaaayyyyy too much onion, and not enough cucumber, and not enough cream, and it was like eating a raw onion, with some kind of slimy white stuff on it, and a couple of green flecks in it, ICK (I loved it, everyone else hated it-but was polite)
I have made a jam tart that was super delicious before dehydrating, then after dehydrating tasted like dirt (lost all of it's flavor) ICK
I have made a wheat berry tortilla, that tasted terrible, I mean, really nasty, I still to this day, don't know what I did to it. ICK
I make fruit leather all the time (grandkids love them) and we have two apple pear trees, well, no matter how much you love apple pears, you can only eat so many, so I tried to make apple pear leather, had no flavor, so I made some with honey, but the honey never dries, so I added some other stuff to it, so when I finally ended up with something, it was like the creature that wouldn't die, in some horror movie, whatever it was, it was not of this earth.
Apple pear, honey, jicama, apple, berry, banana torte alien being.ICK
I went to a friend's house for Thanksgiving last year, and I took a ton of raw foods for everyone to share, they loved the dehydrated crisp zucchini chips, so (of course) I left them there, so the next day, he emails me that they have gone soggy on him, (I guess he put them on a plate in the fridge, not back in the ziplock I took them in.
So, I told him to dehydrate the, well he didn't have a dehydrator, so I told him he could try the oven, and how to do that, well somehow I miscommunicated, and he had soggy, hot zucchini chips, ICK
I took the pesto stuffed mushrooms to a freind's house for dinner, and she didn't have a dehydrator, so she tried to warm them up in the microwave, burst those little suckers all over the inside of her microwave, and they were terrible, and all crumbly, ICK
I took my creamy corn chowder to a friend's house, and I had put it on the stove to "fingerwarm" just so it was a little nicer, this is when it was snowing at Christmas, and I didn't know her stove, so I turned the dial to HIGH, not LOW, (as the letters had rubbed off the knobs) in only a few seconds, the stuff was boiling, and I (of course) didn't eat it, but Dragggon said it lost all of it's flavor and sweetness. It also got a little curdly. ICK
I was at a feast once, put on by a really well known famous raw chef, and I was only a helper in the kitchen, the chef putting on the feast needed a bunch of fresh herbs, and greens, so I brought a ton out of our gardens, it was Yule feast, so we only had winter greens etc.
I gave him some of the herbs and greens, and then I had another bag that was just some arugula plants that didn't look very good to eat, but I told him he could plant them and have fresh arugula later on in the spring.
When I gave him the Arugula plants, he said, let's just toss it in the salad for flavor, I tried to explain that it had baby slugs on it, and he didn't even care (I spent 2 hours trying to pick them out of the large salad he had made) ICK
(needless to say, the last time I helped him in the kitchen)
This same chef at the same feast had made some really wonderful terrene to place avocado mousse on top of, he wanted it warm, but there was no dehydrator there, and he hadn't brought his own. So, he placed them in the oven on warm, but they had parchment paper on the bottoms of them, and the parchment caught on fire, which caught some grease in the oven on fire. So, not only was some of it "cooked", it all tasted like cooked burned grease. ICK
***********
Now for the really fun part
Recipe mishaps
I have made muffins that were hard little rocks that even my dog wouldn't eat, because I dehydrated them too long.
I have made these same muffins, that I tried to reconstitute by letting them soak in water to reabsorb some moisture, to then try to re-dehydrate, that were even worse the second time around ICK
I have made an onion, cream, cucumber salald, where I added waaaaaaayyyyy too much onion, and not enough cucumber, and not enough cream, and it was like eating a raw onion, with some kind of slimy white stuff on it, and a couple of green flecks in it, ICK (I loved it, everyone else hated it-but was polite)
I have made a jam tart that was super delicious before dehydrating, then after dehydrating tasted like dirt (lost all of it's flavor) ICK
I have made a wheat berry tortilla, that tasted terrible, I mean, really nasty, I still to this day, don't know what I did to it. ICK
I make fruit leather all the time (grandkids love them) and we have two apple pear trees, well, no matter how much you love apple pears, you can only eat so many, so I tried to make apple pear leather, had no flavor, so I made some with honey, but the honey never dries, so I added some other stuff to it, so when I finally ended up with something, it was like the creature that wouldn't die, in some horror movie, whatever it was, it was not of this earth.
Apple pear, honey, jicama, apple, berry, banana torte alien being.ICK