Blueberry Season is slowly coming to an end and I am stocking up on as many as I can; it has gotten to the point where I may need to be on a season of hoarders! I am hoarding them like no tomorrow. Josh (country man) is so irritated that there is now a limit on how many blueberries I can buy now. I guess the last straw for him is when the gallon bag of blueberries I had stashed in the freezer fell on the floor when he went to open the freezer.When you see your lover turn bright red from anger, you need a bigger freezer or it is time to find a new way to store your blueberries. I decided on the latter, I am always up for a challenge and a bigger fridge is not in are budget. I decided it was finally time to dust off the dehydrator and put it to use! I thought this would be an easy way to dehydrate all my blueberries even the frozen ones! I mean how hard it could be to dehydrate blueberries, all you need to do is put them in the dehydrator turn it on and they are done. Right!? Wrong! I tried that and after day three I realized they were not going to dry out at all! I needed to do something (quick!) or Josh was going to have a fit! I finally remember when my mom sent us to my grandma’s house; she would teach me how to dry fruit in the oven. She would blanch the fruit first and then putt it the oven and let it dry. She w also would use it to freeze vegetables that she had to many in the garden. It seemed pretty easy so I decided to do it “myself” what could go wrong? I dumped all the blueberries in the boiling pot of water and let them boil. I did all the steps I could remember! By the time I was done I ended up with a mushy crispy blueberry. I will see you in Part Two: I finally got a dehydrated blueberry!
