Make your own fruit leather with your dehydrator for a fun and healthy snack! Get the recipe here - LINK |
Drying food
As produce comes in fast from your garden this summer, drying and canning are great skills to help us build our storage. Here's a few ways you can first start out using your dehydrator.
http://www.beckysbacktobasics.com/get_full_recipe.php?File=1270314345&search.x=34&search.y=29 - Here's a neat way to do a homemade fruit roll-up or what I call fruit leather. Also, using the plain applesauce leather, melt a few caramels, spread in the leather and roll, then cut like tiny cinnamon rolls.
On a cold winter morning it is great to add your dried apples to a steamy hot bowl of oatmeal.
A fun snack is to peel and dice your apple, shake it in flavored gelatin and dry. Yum!
http://www.beckysbacktobasics.com/aboutthehouse.php?File=1273501476&search.x=31&search.y=18 Herbs and spinach are great dried. You can store them in a jar and use them in lots of things. Add to soups and casseroles or whatever you like.
Sewing
Take a look at these sewing links. I really like how she takes you all the way through from the beginning to the very end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=984XMmBAhoE&list=PL38E4CA47F805C79B&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhfB-e7PX7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq2J9Rj8Puo
Knitting
Learn how to knit using regular and circular needles along with the different styles of knitting such as american and continental.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONVQCK_-rKc - this is a great video to show you how to start knitting. Pick up those needles and give it a try :)
These next three videos show you how to start knitting on circular needles...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tff3ng-djtk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCZXZiThK0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8CNu6fgtVw