Family Dinner With Freeze Dried Foods

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My grandma and brother came into town so to celebrate we had a family dinner with 18 of us. How do you incorporate freeze dried food in your prep to make dinner faster you may be asking? Well let me show you a few tips we used with 4 generations in the kitchen.

We ran out of fresh onions so we ran to the pantry opened up a jar of freeze dried onions and poured some directly into the ground beef we were cooking for tacos. They rehydrated up as the beef was cooking.
We wanted some avocado to go on our tacos but didn’t have any ripe ready to go. We poured out what we wanted in a bowl and slowly added water stirring until it was the consistency we wanted added salt and pepper and then covered the bowl with plastic wrap and let sit for 5 mins. At this point we tasted it to see what we wanted to add into our avocado (ie: salsa, sour cream) but it was so delicious we just left it at the salt and pepper.
Last year my mom made some delicious fresh salsa and threw it in the freeze dryer to preserve the fresh salsa verse canning it. We followed the same steps as the avocado to rehydrate and as you can see we couldn’t wait for dinner we were immediately munching on it as we were cooking.

Dinner was a great success with beef tacos and chicken tacos. Adding in these few freeze dried options kicked dinner up a notch. We would have been in the kitchen a lot longer making fresh salsa versus spending the time visiting and enjoying our precious family time.

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