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Sometime this weekend, I got in the DIY* mood. I'm not necessarily a "crafty" person, or at least not consistently so. But 4 projects have struck my fancy lately, and Sunday was the go-to day. Most of them are still in the works, marinating so to speak, and so you'll get updates later. But this one we've gotten to partake of right away:
It's a fruit roll-up! Two things occurred to make this seem like fun: 1) I received my replacement dehydrator instruction manual for Christmas (the first one was devoured by a very young puppy who shall remain nameless). And 2) I've been trying to figure out what to do with the cranberries I have in my freezer that doesn't involve mounds of cream cheese, butter, or sugar. Mmmm. Cranberry pie. Mmmm. Cranberry cheesecake. Mmmm. Cranberry sauce over ice cream. Mmmm.
I digress.
So, I decided to smoosh up some cranberries with some oranges and a drop of honey and dehydrate the heck out of it. Voila! A pizza-for-one-sized fruit roll-up! And it turns out that really you should add mounds of sugar. Or at least more than a drop of honey. Maybe a banana or two would have done the trick. Well, the dog is enjoying it piece by piece anyway.
But it was successful fruit-roll-up-wise! It made the little leathery sucker! Now I can go on to blueberries and a few cranberries. Or apples and cinammon and a few cranberries. Or bananas and persimmons and we'll leave out the cranberries. My handy-dandy instruction manual even says yogurt works, although it might take me a little bit to work up to that.
Project #1: Half Thumb Up!
*DIY meaning "do it yourself." Now you're fashionable and in the know.
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