what if any of them accidentally drank blood from someone who eats lots of garlic and drinks lots of holy water to the point that they have trace amounts of it in their blood, but only realize it until AFTER they bite into said person?
Since they're not organic, garlic wouldn't be harmful for them
it would just be the most absolutely revolting blood they would have ever tasted in all their life
But Holy Water? . . .
Holy Water isn't as forgiving
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I got a question about how thin do I slice the zucchinni I'm drying, so here's some examples!
On the second picture, you can see I'm holding a thick slice with my thumb, and other thinner slices with the rest of my hand; that thick slice is the thickest I will go, and I will only do them that thick if it's really hot outside, 33°Celsius or more, in that case zuchinni will dry okay. They will always dry to paper-thin because most of the content inside is water, once it evaporates you're left with thin zucchini. And I'm not too precise otherwise, you can see in the last picture I'm holding bunch of slices of various thickness.
If it's not super hot, I'll make sure to do thinner slices, or even sprinkle some salt on top so they don't go moldy before they get to dry.
This is how much drying space it took me for those 2 little zuchinni from the first picture:
After they're dried, I put them in a jar and close it; you can fit 3-4 zuchinni in one jar, which is pretty cool storage-wise! The slices are done drying when they're completely crispy and hard, and they should be taken off the drying rack when they're in the hot sun, so they don't have time to absorb any moisture, otherwise you're risking getting mold inside the jar (happened to me once).
The jar needs to be super dry too, I will usually leave it opened in the sun for half an hour so I'm sure there's no humidity stuck inside.
You can put the dried pieces in stews, soups, on top of pizza, in vegetable stock, if you also have dry tomatoes and dry mushrooms, you can achieve a real good umami flavour with the combo! I made a pasta sauce from dry zuchinni and it tasted like mushroom sauce for some reason; another time I tried again and it tasted completely different, so that is a mystery to me. Whatever you make, dry zuchinni are very sating, I've always felt full after eating them.
I got another question asking how I protect it from bugs, and I don't, they're drying on my balcony which is not super filled with bugs, but there will inevitably be moths and butterflies laying their eggs on them, and I just live with that. I've been reading about it and people will put a fine net around their drying racks to prevent bugs from getting close, that's just too much hassle (and I don't have the net).
Dried goods will be fine for at least few months and you don't have to worry about the eggs, they're not poisonous, if you eat your zuchinni before they activate it's all good, for me it's never before February so I focus on eating the dry goods first!
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As climate chaos increases around the world, Michelle Week, a farmer outside of Portland Oregon is drawing on her Sinixt indigenous knowledge to adapt her farm to the changing seasons. By practicing techniques like seed saving and dry farming, Michelle is combating the increasing food security crisis while continuing to provide fresh food to her local community.
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