We Like Making Our Own Stuff

Potato and Cheese Crusted Perch served with wild rice and acorn squash. If you are a regular reader of my blog, you will recall a post I put out in May 2012 titled, Dehydrating Potatoes .  In this post, I explained how I dehydrate potato slices and granules, and also alluded to future posts featuring recipes using the dehydrated potatoes.  Well, it has been about five months since that post, so maybe I should actually post a recipe for you, right!?  Sorry I'm such a slacker. This recipe for perch features the dehydrated potato granules.  If you haven't actually dehydrated any, you can either give it a go by following the instructions on Dehydrating Potatoes , or you can buy some granules at the grocery store.  Dehydrated foods are an excellent addition to the pantry and store well. I used perch as my fish of choice in the following recipe, but other freshwater game fish will work just as well, such as walleye or crappie.  I bet even your run of th...

Sometimes, you run across a deal that you just can't pass up: If potatoes go on sale, stock up and dehydrate them. We were grocery shopping one Sunday, and needed to pick up potatoes, which are normally around $2.50 for a 10 pound bag...but then I spied this 25 pound box of potatoes for $2.99, reduced for quick sale.  I'm not sure why they needed to sell them quickly, but we snatched them up! And then we had 25 pounds of potatoes.  That's a lot of taters.