I've experimented further from the 'hamburger rocks' recipe for dried ground beef. Rather than cooking it til really dried, I just cook it til no more moisture rises from the pan, and then I put it in the dehydrator to finish off. It seems to come out more tender as a finished product in recipes. (my kids eat it straight, just sprinkled onto buttered bread)
Using the same technique, I dried bits of stewing beef, cut to a bit less than 1/2 inch cubes...these little beefstones are delicious. I didn't spice or season them before cooking, as they are to be soaked and added to recipes..but I will next time, as they are also very good to nibble on just like that.
It's the same with turkey...and I have to hide the turkeystones from the kids, or there will be none left to cook with.
We eat quite alot of paella in this house...that's rice cooked with chorizo, poultry, seafood cocktail, vegetables and spice...so I bought several packs of frozen mixed seafood cocktail (calamari, baby shrimp, mussels, teensy squid), cooked it til there was no more moisture rising from the pan, and then chucked it into the dehydrator. Voila! Perfect seafood cocktail-if a bit dark coloured.
Next will be pork and lamb, white fish and salmon.....
Using the same technique, I dried bits of stewing beef, cut to a bit less than 1/2 inch cubes...these little beefstones are delicious. I didn't spice or season them before cooking, as they are to be soaked and added to recipes..but I will next time, as they are also very good to nibble on just like that.
It's the same with turkey...and I have to hide the turkeystones from the kids, or there will be none left to cook with.
We eat quite alot of paella in this house...that's rice cooked with chorizo, poultry, seafood cocktail, vegetables and spice...so I bought several packs of frozen mixed seafood cocktail (calamari, baby shrimp, mussels, teensy squid), cooked it til there was no more moisture rising from the pan, and then chucked it into the dehydrator. Voila! Perfect seafood cocktail-if a bit dark coloured.
Next will be pork and lamb, white fish and salmon.....