{"id":355,"date":"2014-11-26T07:05:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T07:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2014-11-26T07:16:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T07:16:52","slug":"dehydrated-celery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Dehydrated Celery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10806268_10153428753589768_911636363131777726_n-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10806268_10153428753589768_911636363131777726_n-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"10806268_10153428753589768_911636363131777726_n (1)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10806268_10153428753589768_911636363131777726_n-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10806268_10153428753589768_911636363131777726_n-1-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10806268_10153428753589768_911636363131777726_n-1-400x533.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10806268_10153428753589768_911636363131777726_n-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celery doesn&#8217;t last for very long in the fridge, and if your fridge happens to have an identity crisis and think it&#8217;s a freezer, your celery becomes wilted. \u00a0Sometimes there are just a few stalks left that you forget about (that go to waste). \u00a0I am all about reducing waste when it comes to food, so my solution to always keeping celery on hand, and to prevent waste, is to dehydrate it. \u00a0As soon as the celery begins to lighten in color or if I find a fantastic deal on celery and can stock up, I slice it and dehydrate it. \u00a0You can powder the celery or blend it into a nice mince and add it to soups (<a title=\"Condensed Cream of Celery Soup\" href=\"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/?p=354\">like condensed cream of celery soup<\/a>) or casseroles (like<a title=\"Cheesy Potatoes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/?p=368\"> cheesy potatoes<\/a>) that need the celery flavor but not necessarily the texture. It&#8217;s such a simple act that I often find myself dehydrating just a few stalks at a time (and the dehydrator costs pennies to run all night, so it&#8217;s not expensive to dehydrate food). \u00a0Simply wash, slice, throw them in a single layer on a dehydrator tray and set the temperature for 125F, and let it go until celery is dry. \u00a0I often just let it go all night and I turn it off on the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Celery doesn&#8217;t last for very long in the fridge, and if your fridge happens to have an identity crisis and think it&#8217;s a freezer, your celery becomes wilted. Sometimes there are just a few stalks left that you forget about (that go to waste). I am all about reducing waste when it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.k7farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}