Tuesday I had about 20 zucchini. I had been saving them for several days and then picked everything left on the vine. I’ve never been happy with freezing or canning zucchini or yellow squash for future use so this year, I shredded all the zucchini to make zucchini bread.
You may remember that about a year ago, I debated for months about whether to buy the Breville food processor, finally decided to do it and after almost a year of using it, I love it so much. Some days, depending on what I’m using it for, I love it; some days, I love it more than I would ever have imagined. I will add that it was $399 last year when I bought it and now it’s $549. I doubt I would have paid $549 for it so now I’m even more happy that I bought it when I did.
This is a rather large bowl and I filled it totally fully twice. It took less than 5 minutes to shred all those zucchini.
My zucchini bread recipe calls for 2 cups of shredded zucchini. See the little orange silicone dish? It has two cups of zucchini. I weighed it and it weighed 300 grams. I will weigh it after it’s freeze dried and then I will divide all the zucchini into whatever amount that comes out to be. When it’s time to re-hydrate the zucchini to make bread, I will either add water to the dried zucchini to bring it up to 300 grams, or maybe I’ll add a mix of water and milk and make adjustments to the dough to get everything to work.
I probably filled the trays a bit too full but I filled six trays and since my freeze dryer holds four trays, there are two trays in the freezer. I started the freeze dryer about 4 p.m. on Tuesday and it will probably be Friday around noon before the freeze dryer is finished, then it will have to defrost and I can get another load going. I have one tray of peaches, two trays of zucchini and will probably fill the fourth tray with eggs.
What are your thoughts?