Foodie Friday

I had both cranberries and bananas that needed attention. Pulled out the dehydrator and got busy.

You can certainly dehydrate cranberries just by washing and laying them on the trays but I am not sure you would want to do anything with them afterwards. I first blanched them in a 1 to 1 sugar water solution. This also helped soften the berries. Raw unsweetened cranberries are not for the faint of heart!

They turned out quite nice and will be perfect in oatmeal this winter.

Again you can just slice the banana and lay it down, but a little bit of a lemon juice bath keeps them from turning totally brown before they are finished dehydrating.

My DH dehydrated 2 bananas a week or so ago and had already eaten them all. Time for more and I needed to fill the other two trays in the dehydrator.