Baking and Granola Bars

We hosted a Homestead Summer Camp this week with two kids.  We did a lot of baking and making including bread, freezer biscuits, hot pockets, dried fruit, canned tomatoes, and granola bars.  The youngest helped make dough for his pizza pockets.

Another day, we made the granola bars from scratch.  They did not involve any baking and were really easy to make so I was surprised when they tasted really good!

We will definitely make them again, although I get the feeling that they need to stay in the fridge in order to stay firm, so I may have to find a way to bake these to keep them a bit more firm during a school day.

First attempt at dehydrating herbs

 We dehydrated a bunch of fruit this week. We tried kiwi, peaches, several types of apples, pears, mango... Basically all of the fruit that we could find in a local farmers market store.

The watermelon was attempted, but I'm not sure how good it really is.  A lot of it was still pretty soft even after 24 hours.  I think the oldest will eat it all within a day so at least it won't be wasted completely, and lesson learned.

Tomato Canning 2014

We finally got around to canning again for this summer.  First we hit our favorite produce farm and picked well over 100 pounds of tomatoes. 

Then we dumped it all on the table and waited until the next day to get to work.