November 2025

After the roasting of my first batch of tomatoes, I was ready to try something else for this year’s crop, and I had ripened about a half a bushel of green ones inside the kitchen after I took all them off the vines. Due to the fact that indoor ripened tomatoes have less flavor, I decided to make the best of it by dehydrating them. I did this a few years back and I have the American Harvester dehydrator so it was a go. I just washed the tomatoes, dried them well and sliced them into thin slices. Then I sprayed my dehydrator racks with just a smidge of spray avocado oil and spread out the tomato slices close to each other on the racks. I stacked all 6 racks, put the machine on the highest heat, and let er rip for a but over 24 hours. Here’s what they looked like! Into ziplock baggies into the freezer and now we’ll pop them into soups, stews, and maybe even salad dressings for a bright intensified taste of summer any time we want!