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Default Cooking for one? Or more?


"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:48:12 -0500, S Viemeister
> > wrote:
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>> On 1/25/2012 7:16 PM, Cheryl wrote:
>> > On 1/25/2012 1:00 PM, S Viemeister wrote:
>> >>>
>> >
>> > I've never seen dehy celery or some of the others you mentioned. Does
>> > it
>> > reconstitute similar to fresh or is it powdered?
>> >

>> It's chopped, rather than powdered. It's fine in soups, stews, and
>> stuffings, but I've never tried it in something like tuna or egg salad.
>> Once reconstituted, it's rather limp, compared to the fresh stuff.

>
> I've seen a mixture of various dried vegetables but I don't recall
> seeing individual types of dried vegetables sold separately at the
> grocery store with the exception of dried onion.


I mail order mine but there are some stores that sell the Just Tomatoes
brand of freeze dried foods. I don't think they do celery but I could be
wrong.