Tips for saving foods

[xbusymom]

I thought it would be nice to post the tricks to save foods from going bad, ways to resurrect a recipe that was ruined, or substitutes for ingredients...

I just made a pineapple upsidedown cake with a cake mix that was "out of date' by adding 1 teaspoon of baking soda to the cake batter. It rose well in the oven and tastes great.

:cool:

[Operator]

I stumbled upon a video recently that was very useful: about dehydration

I googled a link to more of these kind of video's:
http://www.google.com/search?q=how%20to%20dehydrate&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=vid:1&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv

Sort of do it yourself conservation of normal (non freeze fried) food ...

[John Parslow]

Hello xbusymom

Any chance of trying a piece of your pineapple upsidedown cake? I am an old guy now and one of life's little pleasures is a piece of cake.

Love and peace. JP :cool:

[xbusymom]

Hello xbusymom

Any chance of trying a piece of your pineapple upsidedown cake? I am an old guy now and one of life's little pleasures is a piece of cake.

Love and peace. JP :cool:

Hmmm... I could mail it to you but I don't know that it will hold up that well in transit... and it is disappearing pretty fast... sorry 'bout that...LOL

but the recipe is...

cake mix (your choice of white or yellow)
can or fresh crushed pineapple
butter and brown sugar

make a layer of melted butter in the cake pan
sprinkle a layer of brown sugar
do the cake mix according to instructions and add to pan
bake and cool
then flip onto platter and eat

[xbusymom]

I stumbled upon a video recently that was very useful: about dehydration

I googled a link to more of these kind of video's:
http://www.google.com/search?q=how%20to%20dehydrate&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=vid:1&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv

Sort of do it yourself conservation of normal (non freeze fried) food ...

thanks... those are great, and I have bookmarked several of the videos... but i was thinking more along the lines of fixing food goof-ups... since we already have a section for food storage
here is the food dehydration thread
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?501-Food-Dehydration-101

[Goldenserenity]

I thought it would be nice to post the tricks to save foods from going bad, ways to resurrect a recipe that was ruined, or substitutes for ingredients...

I just made a pineapple upsidedown cake with a cake mix that was "out of date' by adding 1 teaspoon of baking soda to the cake batter. It rose well in the oven and tastes great.

:cool:

Just a word of caution...cake mixes, pancake mixes and brownie mixes that are outdated can form mold spores which have been known to make people sick and even die from it if they are allergic to molds.

[xbusymom]

I didnt know that- thanks for the heads up.