More dehydrator love

This weekend I made an abundant abundance of delicious food. Two and a half batches of butternut squash soup (Dom's delicious recipe), chocolate flax crackers and raw veggie burgers. I took some photos of the veggie burgers but they are on my camera at home and I am currently wasting time at work. I will add them later.

Chocolate Flax Crackers:
I used the left overs from a full flax cracker batch with which I was experimenting was various flavours. The ones with garlic, tomato and red pepper were my favourite. The chocolate ones turned out tasty too though.
To make the basic flax cracker recipe:
http://www.living-foods.com/recipes/flaxcrackers.html

I don't use braggs though... I've substituted the soaking water from soaking the dehydrated tomatoes and peppers, or made other seasoning like liquids. Basically once you soak the flax seeds you can do anything that makes sense.

For the choclate ones I used about 3 tablespoons of honey and 1/3 cup cocoa powder for about 1/3 of the 4 cups of soaked flax seeds. Put honey in a saucepan and don't cook it, just kind of heat it gently until it melts a little and you can stir in the cocoa powder. I also added about a 1/2 tsp of allspice and 1/2 tsp of cayenne. Mix it up good then mix it in to the flax mixture quickly because it hardens fast. I didn't add anything else, though you could possibly add some fruit juice or something.
Dehydrate. Eat. Be regular.

Raw veggie patties
Frick these are super tasty.
Also they would be easier if you had a food processor, but I don't. If you had one you could just throw all the ingredients in together with an S-blade and blend a bit. For you other poor, food-processorless students out there, here is how I made 'em.

1/2 cup each sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds. Soak for 6 hours.

Grate:
1 small butternut squash
1 red pepper
1 large carrot
1 medium beet

Finely chop about 1/2 medium sized red onion, or you could use green onion, whatever you like.
Garlic to taste (I crushed one giant clove of fancy "music" garlic... it was a lot)
Finely chopped cilantro

Mix all the above ingredients together in a big bowl. Then take soaked seeds and drain. Blend (I used a hand blender) with a little bit of the vegetable mixture and some lemon juice and a bit of temari (which isn't exactly raw but I don't like braggs and don't think braggs is raw either). Add this to the bowl of veggies and mix together with your hands. Form into patties about 1/2 inch thick and place on to sheets on dehydrator. They don't stay together that well when they are wet but they were nice and sturdy by the time they were done. Dehydrate about 6-7 hours on the vegetable setting then flip and dehydrate another 6-7 hours. Should still be chewy in the middle but a bit crispy on the outside.

I could probably eat the whole batch in less then a day. Nom nom nom.

Photos soon!

Dr. Freeze

No pictures yet, but I am on a freezing binge.

Curry butternut squash soup, check.
Veggie chili, check. And made with home canned tomatoes!

Next up: root vegetable soup!

In unrelated news, my winter bike is on its way to being awesome. Woo!

I love life. I also love Lemily, who is gifting me a dehydrator.

P.S. No one has died from our home canned tomatoes yet. Success!