Freeze dried vegetable bullion

The making of veggie mush for freeze dried vegetable bullion

Our 11th batch, how exciting!!! This one took a while to get situated, as I first had to make vegetable mash. I don’t like to waste food and I don’t always want to compost it or give it all to the chickens. So instead, I keep bags labeled “veggie scraps” in my freezer at all times. Whenever I have things like ends of celery, end pieces of onion, etc., I toss it in one of the bags and leave it until I’m ready to make something.

For this, I had tons of different veggies! I had broccoli, onion (sweet, red, and white at least lol), celery, carrot, green bean ends, and whatever else was in those bags. It was a nice variety!

I dumped all the frozen vegetable scraps into a stockpot (I used this 8-quart stockpot), added minimal water, and let it simmer on the stove for several hours. I stirred it every once in a while, but I had it on pretty low heat, so it didn’t need much stirring.

After a few hours, I dumped it all into a blender and blended up really well. Then I put it back in the stockpot and let it simmer for about another hour. It smelled so amazing!!!

Once I felt like it was finished enough, I took it off heat and let it cool down a bit. Then I put it in the fridge to get colder. If I had a second set of freeze dryer trays, I would have pre-frozen it. However, the ones I ordered haven’t arrived yet. Wish I had ordered a second set at the same time I got the Ice Queen, lol.

I then put it in the freeze dryer (a Harvest Right Home Pro Medium) and let her do her magic!