Space ice cream here we come!!!!

 

I did my bread run last night in my new freeze dryer and everything went very smoothly (with the exception of me accidentally pulling out the plug and causing it to have a power failure…..uggh).  It got done very late last night, so I decided to just prep the ice cream bars and start the process this morning. I decided to cut the ice cream bars into three pieces because I had seen online that if you do that they get done faster and it also helps them to freeze more solid.  So I cut them all into threes and put them into the freezer over night.  This morning I woke up and turned on the machine…..waited 15 minutes for it to tell me to load the trays, and then loaded them.  At this point we are at the drying stage, so hopefully everything will continue to go smoothly.  I have read online that if they are not fully frozen they would kind of explode and make a mess (not explode in a dangerous way, but explode as in a messy way).  So far what I can see from looking through the door is that nothing has “exploded” yet, so really hoping they are frozen solid enough.  

While these are in the freeze dryer I have prepped four trays (two with lasagna and two with low protein pasta) and put those in the freezer.  I plan on leaving those in there for at least 48 hrs so that I can ensure they are really frozen.  If the ice cream gets done in time I might toss in some bananas, strawberries, and cantaloupe and see how all of that turns out.  I am hoping to get a fruit run in between the ice cream and the pasta.  

I also bought stuff to make breakfast foods (eggs, hashbrowns, Canadian bacon).  I am not sure if I am going to just do the eggs as omelets or make breakfast type bowls.  I am going to think about that for a little longer.  I would like to have some breakfast type foods I can send along with Brad since the hotel he is at right now doesn’t have hot breakfast.  

I also decided to bake homemade bread today.  I have two loaves rising right now, and might experiment a bit with cassava flour to see if I can make a low protein loaf of bread with that.  

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