Well, since I lasted updated, I have a new job!! I am Chef Garde Manger at The Manor House Restaurant at Poplar Spings Inn and Spa in Casanova, VA. No more ho-hum food for me. Sorry, Black Bear Bistro. You were good to me for 3 years, but it was time to get away. No offense, but compared to what we are doing at Poplar, I wasn't getting any good experience at the Bistro. No offense to them. They have a good thing going I guess.
Anyway, on to the real matter and something that is not ho-hum...dehydrated watermelon. Yes, you heard it right...dehydrated watermelon.
I took a perfectly good watermelon, cut it and sliced it into thin wedges.
It would have been a lot easier to use a seedless watermelon because I had to scrape out all the seeds. Time consuming.
I loaded the wedges into our Excalibur dehydrator and turned it to 135 degrees overnight.
In the morning I had dehydrated watermelon.
Behold!!
Only bad thing about this, the wedges stuck to the racks. I figured out the only way to remove them was to roll them into cigars. So I ended up with dehydrated watermelon cigars.
Some of them are a bit spicy because the last thing I dried on the racks was hot peppers, but they are still good. Very sweet. All the sweetness concentrated into the little bit of the watermelon that dried up. Yum yum! Don't think I will ever do this again though. Too time consuming. I think I will venture into drying other melons. Hopefully cantaloupe is not as sticky when dehydrated.
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