I love my Excalibur!

[Ariannah]

At last it arrived yesterday! It is beautiful, and the trays are a lovely lavender/purple! I currently have sweet potato chips, and 2 types of flax crackers in there (garlic/ginger and vegetable), and have some seeds soaking for another batch! The golden flax seeds are very tasty and go with whatever flavour I put in there.

I'll post a picture of the crackers and chips when they are finished.

Ariannah

[kmik]

It is beautiful

LOL, it just sounds funny to think of a black box as "beautiful" but I understand... I have quite an affinity for mine :rolleyes:

It sounds like you're already having so much fun with it! I'm so glad you got it finally. It's going to open a whole new part of raw to you!

Oh, make sure you make the kids some fruit leather! Just throw a bunch of fruit in the food processor, dump it on a teflex sheet, and in oh, maybe 10 hours, viola! Fruit Roll-ups! (I use my retired pizza cutter to cut it in to strips :cool: )

[Ariannah]

Yeah! The banana fruit leather wraps for crepes are next on my list! As far as fruit leather is concerned, I'd love to try doing that when the kids leave enough uneaten fruit for me to work with ;) I'm very thankful they love fruit.

So far I am loving the ease of crackers. I love putting them in, then SLEEPING, and voila, crackers are almost done. They are tasty too! I love golden flax seeds. Crackers are so easy to make and my children are willing recipients!

I'm putting on my list, fresh corn and oranges for the enchilada wraps, nuts and fruit for the crepes (they saw these on the video and they are eager to try those). I'd love to also make calzones too.

I'm so glad to finally be making better foods for the family.

I can't wait to make all kinds of fancy crackers to take people for snack time.

Oh and most of all, I love not burning my hands on a hot stove. ;)

This is so much fun!

[fiddler]

Oh, make sure you make the kids some fruit leather! Just throw a bunch of fruit in the food processor, dump it on a teflex sheet, and in oh, maybe 10 hours, viola! Fruit Roll-ups! (I use my retired pizza cutter to cut it in to strips :cool: )
I know I've posted this here before... but for bananas, a great alternative is to use an ordinary egg slicer and slice the benanas lengthwise and then dehydrate overnight until the afternoon. I usually just get a 40 lb box of organic bananas and fill the entire 9 trays and then freeze what's left (little more than half the box). Much more convenient to handle in my opinion and they look cool afterwards. Kids love 'em too :)

hth, Gil

[lodestar]

ooooh, so many good ideas...I may just have to get a dehydrator. I gave my nine tray away a few years back and hate to part with the money again.

[Rawzoni]

Wow! I too just received mine but have not taken it out of the box yet. I can't wait to try out some new recipes. My husband is leaving for Chicago this weekend so it will be a great opportunity to experiment. He is hugging his SAD Diet. I can only be a good example ~ right? I got the 5 try, with just me I'm hoping its enough :)

Last weekend my sister and I watched the video and it inspired her to buy the book.

I am new to RAW and am enjoying my journey!

[levamssg]

I always have a batch of this going in my dehydrator ...

granola
1 cup pumpkin seed, soaked
1 cup sunflower seed, soaked
2 cups almonds, soaked
1 - 2 apple(s)

pulse chop seeds and almonds in processor until chunky
pulse chop apple, add to chopped seeds and almonds

add 1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/4 - 1/2 tsp tsp celtic salt

stir well, and spread mixture on teflex sheets in dehydrator. Dehydrate overnight or until competely dry and crunchy.

I use this in the morning over sliced bananas with almond milk. The granola stays crunchy in the milk ... it is really good!