Dehydrating Watermelon, doing household tasks, putting up broths.

Today - dehydrating watermelon and dehydrating pear sauce (makes fruit leathers).  -

• Cut the watermelon into strips.  
• Pour the pear sauce (pears from neighbors trees, cinnamon, all spice, nutmeg, honey, water - cooked 24 hours on low in the crockpot, processed through the ninja, sieved of chunks/skin/etc; makes pear sauce.  Same can be done with any fruit) into a liquid tray of a food processor.  
• Dehydrate both for 16-24 hours on 110.  Makes very tasty fruit leathers and pieces of watermelon "leather".  

Unhappy moment of the weekend - I think I am starting to react to cinnamon. Tried several different sources and all cause mouth burning and twinge my head. So, cinnamon is on the no-go list for a couple months. Will try it again about Christmas time/January 2014.



BROTH
CHICKEN

• Cook Chicken in a VERY LARGE stock pot with onion, garlic, salt, other seasonings as preferred.  
• When chicken is pull off the bone tender, remove chicken.  
• Boil the broth left down to 1/3 of the level it was when you removed the chicken.  
• Put in fridge overnight.  
• Skim off fat if you want to.  
• Bag in ziplocs or in freezer storage containers.  
• Freeze.  
• Good for 6 months in a deep freezer.  

VENISON - Same with the venison broth.

TINY STORAGE OPTION FOR BROTH:
You can reduce further, spread on the liquid tray of the dehydrator and dehydrate to store in smaller containers

USES FOR BROTH:
Then, Take the broth and use it to cook beans that you have soaked.  Once done, remove the beans and eat those.  Then use the leftover broth for making dumplings.  (I make grain free dumplings).

All broths from cooked veggies and meats can be AWESOME to save to increase nutritional value of your foods.


THE DAY'S SCHEDULE ... AND THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS
Happy Moment - Got the things packed from the kitchen. So, when I find a job, and start having money, a little more packing is done for moving out. YAY!


Today's list - laundry and hanging out clothes, Coursera Class starting (free class, topics of interest to me...) Global Health. Dishes. Freezing Chix broth and venison broth. Packing a couple boxes of books. giving the dog a bath.
We will see how far I get!

Monday - final signatures for internship and submitting the final paperwork. Job interview.

Tuesday - Job Fair, meeting with pastors of youth groups.

Wednesday - depending on how I am feeling, hiking or maybe just level ramblings about the outdoors.