Dehydrate Your Way to Green Powder. Homemade hot sauce with a tip for making it FANTASTIC. To be quite honest, I had given up on making hot sauces.
Mine were anything but memorable. Then I met Pedro. He arrived for retreat with a group of Hispanic men. They provided the retreat leader. We provided the food. Soon after arriving, Pedro came to the kitchen asking where to store his half gallon of hot sauce. Pedro was older than the other men, most of whom addressed him as “Tio,” a Spanish term of endearment literally “uncle.” By the close of the weekend Pedro and I had become bonded. “I’ve not told this secret before,” he assured me. I was shocked and honored. What I learned from Pedro is that the roasting, toasting, or frying of the hot peppers is what makes all the difference in the final outcome. Pedro was using dried peppers. Depending on your palate and your heat tolerance you may be more interested in the mildly hot peppers like the Santa Fe or the rellano-type pepper. With any variety, always test for heat. Homemade Glue - My Mum would make this Homemade Glue for my Brother and I growing up…I’m happy to now share it with all our Fellow Fun Mums too!
It will save you money on buying glue and you will know it’s completely safe for your children to use too. Ingredients- 1 cup Cornflour or Cornstarch1 tablespoon of white vinegar2 teaspoons of Salt4 cups of Hot Water. Homemade Chai Tea Concentrate. Ground Beef Jerky Recipe Using a Jerky Gun. How To Make Bouillon Cubes - A Return To Simplicity. If you read my last post, you know that I make a LOT of stock.
I use it to cook all kinds of things, from rice, to soup, and even a couple of savory bread recipes! However, our stock consumption is a bit lower during the hot summer months, which results in a bit of a build up in my freezer. In theory, this is awesome, because once the weather cools down, we use up stock in the blink of an eye. In reality, it’s a bit trickier than that though. Late summer is when our freezer fills up to the brim with garden produce, and it is also when we usually get our beef share. Bakto Flavors. How to Make Homemade Extracts - Vanilla, Lemon and Almond. Homemade Doritos Seasoning. Kale chips.
That’s how this recipe came about. I wanted to come up with a tasty fun new seasoning for a batch of kale chips that I was working on. I used to love Doritos and thought it would be great if I could recreate that flavor. I ended up using this on not only kale chips but I added it to pasta, sprinkled it on my salad, over roasted veggies and even put some on my popcorn. Then I made Dorito breadcrumbs, added it to my favorite tacos and finally made a to die for Doritos flavored hummus. ~Sarah Ingredients: 6 tbsp nutritional yeast1 tsp onion powder1 tsp garlic powder1/8 – 1/4 tsp cayenne1 heaping tsp paprika (for a bit of a bacon-y flavor substitute with smoked paprika – so yummy!)
Preparation: Place all the ingredients in a blender and pulse 2 or 3 times.You can mix this seasoning by hand but it’s best to use a blender to create the right consistency. Nutritional Info: Makes just over 1/3 cup. Serving size 1 tbsp. Notes: Dukkah, a seasoning blend that is about to take over the entire world ;) Dukkah is one of those seed/nut/spice blends from North Africa that can turn most any food into a celebration.
It may have originated in Egypt and I understand that dukkah began as a pack-and-carry food for camel drivers. After a day or two in the desert, the flatbread is hard and tasteless. Dip it in olive oil and then in dukkah and, voila! , you have a tasty and nutritious meal. Dukkah is also known as dukka and duqqa. The dukkah flavor is complex and satisfying, not sharp or hot. Come up with the mix you like and you will find yourself sprinkling it on everything imaginable: scrambled eggs, cooked grains, creamed soups, salads, steamed or roasted vegetables, baked potatoes, and topping for quiche.
Dukkah Ingredients 1/2 cups almonds, blanched and toasted 1/2 cup sesame seeds 1 1/2 tablespoons coriander seed 1 1/2 tablespoons cumin seed 3/4 teaspoon sea salt 3/4 teaspoon black pepper corns Dukkah Steps Toast the almonds separately from the seed and spice mix if the almonds are whole. Blog - Vegetable Powders: Making Them, Using Them, & Long-Term Food Storage. DIY Spice Round Up: 9 Make Your Own Spice Recipes. I feel so liberated since I started making my own spice mixes.
Sounds silly, I know. But I used to hate it when I had a dinner plan, only to open the cupboard and find out I was missing an essential spice. Now I just make them myself. They are a lot easier than you’d think, and 9 times out of 10, I have all of the ingredients on hand. So my dinner plans aren’t shot and it saves me an extra trip to the store for one silly ingredient {those are my least favorite trips because one things becomes 10 things and I’ve walked out of the store wasting money!}. Since I’ve posted a bunch of the DIY spice recipe now, I thought having them all in one place would we handy. DIY Old Bay Seasoning Recipe – Perfect for seafood dishes. DIY Apple Pie Spice Mix Recipe – Apple pie, apple muffins, apple spice cake, you name it.