Round Dehydrator Recipe Photos

[HapENap]

Ok, so I'm "new" in that I don't post very often and had a very successful 30 day raw stint last year but wedding-baby-house buying took precedence and raw went to the back burner.

Now I'm ramping up to really make this work starting in July. One thing that I often felt some kinda way about was not being able to make my food "look" like that of maraw, or fairygirl...etc
*So inspire me (and others!) with pics of your crackers, crepes, pizzas, etc made strictly in your ROUND DEHYDRATOR!

I'm hoping to gather tips and tricks for using and making beautiful food without the square excalibur type machine.

I'm at work, so I'll post when I get home! :D

[Moretta]

Welcome back and good luck on your RAWNESS journey.

[spicyfull]

I don't think there are too many round ones around. Are you going on another 30 Day Challenge? Congratulations on your Marrige, Baby, House and Back to RAW.

[juliebove]

I don't have any pics. Used to be a person with a pic of a huge flax cracker they made in their round one. It had a hole in the middle.

I don't dehydrate a lot. But when I make onion bread, I use a flexible scraper to shape small portions of the dough into individual pieces of bread. This works quite well for me.

I've not had the best of luck with cheese. I usually form it into a big circle with the hole in the middle but have been unable to cut it into even pieces. Mainly I just break off large chunks and this works for sandwiches.

I've done nut and fruit mixes with no problem.

The only other things I've tried were chips. Both potato and corn. Yucky!

[klomasius]

Just trawled through my photos. I now have a big ten tray flat dehydrator, but I used to do a lot of stuff in my little round.

p.s. I've seen much better pizza pics with a round tray dehyd than the ones below, but it's a start!

The preserved tomatoes I made in my round dehyd.

More photos to come...

[klomasius]

More pics....

Also, check out my picasa photo album. Many of my recipes don't require any dehydrating at all. some need a crappy food processor, others a mediocre blender and voila!

http://picasaweb.google.com/meghan.street/RawFoodRecipes#

[greenfeline]

I don't have any pics, but I use mine all the time. I would like a dehydrator where I could have round tortillas or big square bread pieces, but it works fine for the price! I just made alissa's nectarine cookies which are delicious!

[klomasius]

Never took photos of them, but I used to avoid the 'hole in the middle thing' by making a firm pizza base and cutting it with a cookie cutter into mini pizzas. Just a suggestion.

[katacykls]

Wow Klomassius you have some beautiful and mouth watering pictures on picassa...What do you use as a base for your cakes ?

[klomasius]

Wow Klomassius you have some beautiful and mouth watering pictures on picassa...What do you use as a base for your cakes ?

Thanks Kat! :)

I use lots of different things, but the base for the cake layers of the choc coconut cake on picasa is a modified version of RPs brownies. Walnuts, dates, cacao powder and some maca to make it really fudgy.

[HapENap]

Wow, klomasius...you have some great pics on picasa! Tell me, how did you get your cheese sauce so smooth? Was it with a Vitamix? If not, could you share your technique for using a regular blender to get things smooth?

I've recently started my 30 days raw, and looking back on the first time I was successful, some issue I had with my food were them not "looking" appealing particulary the pizzas. I could never get them quite right!

[klomasius]

Hey Hap!

There are a number of ways to get the 'cheese' creamy, one way is to blend the nuts into a fine meal before adding the wet ingredients. This seems to help with the creaminess a little if the blender you're using is a cheaper one.

The way I usually do it is to put the nuts/seeds in first along with a bit of water and any oil I'm using then blend it up. Later I'll add the flavours. The blender I used for the pizza photos on picasa is a really cheap one (about $80 aust, one that could blend ice). It got things pretty creamy though if I blended for a little longer (just stop the blender and try it out and blend till it's the desired consistency).

I've since got a kick arse blender that blends as well as a Vitamix but is half the price, so my creams and cheese are even smoother!

And yes, I felt that at the beginning, how things looked was really important for me in order to keep interested and stay on track. These days I'm not so fussed but I still really love making things that both look and taste great!

Hope it's all going fantastically well for you! :D :)