Dehydrated Potatoes

I had my doubts about these potatoes.  Especially when I opened the bag and saw that one of them was starting to sprout. Since I wasn't in the mood to eat 6 potatoes by myself, I knew they would just go bad without preserving them. The only experience I've had with dehydrated potatoes is with Betty-Crocker-type scalloped potatoes which always leaves you wishing you would have just used real potatoes.

Dehydrated Bell Peppers

I thought I would spice up this post with some funny facts about bell peppers. However out of the 1.4 million results they were all nutritional or historical in nature. So basically bell peppers: not funny.

Dehydrated Mushrooms

I used to hate mushrooms. They taste like dirt and have the consistency of dead snails. The only way I would eat them before was on pizza, but that's just because everything is good on pizza. Although I will probably never be the girl that eats a portabella mushroom as an entree, I am warming up to them....in small doses.

Dehydrated Onions

Do you like the smell of onions? Do you want it to permeate everything in your house? Do you like your eyes stinging throughout the day? Then dehydrating onions is right for you! I'm telling you this to save you from onion-scented curtains: move the dehydrator outside. Trust me, I learned the hard way.

Crockpot Day 6 - Vegetable Fajitas

It has been raining for days. I say it like it's a huge inconvenience except that we've had two months of sunny, spring-like weather in the dead of winter. It's rough living in California.

Crockpot Day 5 - Black-Eyed Pea Stew

Isn't there some kind of superstition about eating black-eyed peas on New Year's and it brings you money? Does it still count if I eat them in February? Let's hope I'm not a month too late. I consider it lucky when 1) I can just toss everything into a slow cooker and dinner is ready when my husband comes home and 2) my baby likes what I make. So in a sense these black-eyed peas were very lucky.

Crockpot Day 4 - Super Yummy Potatoes

This should really be called the never-gonna-have-leftover Crockpot potatoes. I should know because potatoes are my weakness. For Thanksgiving, I have a second helping of mashed potatoes for dessert. I can make a main dish out cheese and potatoes. And for Christmas, my mother-in-law doesn't even have to ask what I will eat at her house, she knows it's scalloped potatoes.