Dehydrating Onions

Closeup image of several yellow onions with the skins still on.

Recently I was lucky enough to get a few extra small bags of yellow onions for free.  Since there was no way I was going to use that many onions before they spoiled and I don't have a basement nor root cellar, I decided to dehydrate them for storing.

Dehydrating is economical & very easy and if stored properly, your food will last up to 20+ years!  I highly recommend drying onions for storage so next time they are on sale snatch up a few bags, but ONLY IN THE SPRING OR SUMMER!  You'll want to put your dehydrator outside on a porch or in an outbuilding/garage, hence the warm weather recommendation.  Cool weather dictated that I keep the dehydrator inside and my house smelled like onions for 3 days.  My clothes smelled like onions.  My person smelled like onions.  Heck, even the cats & dogs smelled like onions!  To be forewarned is to be forearmed.  ;-)

Here's the video:

Making White Gravy & Chicken A La King

A plate holding some biscuits smothered with white country gravy.

A very dear friend of mine asked me to do a how-to on white gravy, also known as country gravy.  Her wish is my command, so here is a vid on making white/country gravy which continues on to make Chicken A La King for supper.

This video is a bit longer than usual, but only because I thought it was important to give folks an idea on how much stirring and actual time is involved when making homemade country gravy.

I also have another way to make country gravy, so will post a video of that when I get around to making it.  Gee, I guess you'll have to come back to Falmouth Farm to learn about that one too.  :-D