Set It & Forget It!

I never thought I would ever in a million years use this appliance that was always on TV. We are not very big on using electrical counter top gadgets, let alone those advertised on TV.. But since I got this one brand new in the box at the recycle center for free, you know "set it and forget it" Showtime Rotisserie, we find that we can't live without it.

 It makes the best rotisserie chicken with my homemade seasoning. Who knew?

Making Homemade Garlic Powder

A few years back when I built my chicken plucker, I bought the plans from Herrick Kimball from Whiz Bang Chicken Plucker.   At that time he was also selling his homemade garlic powder, so I bought some and it was great!  I guess now he also has a book on how to make garlic powder here  Make Great Garlic Powder.   I just found this link today and didn't know he had a book about garlic powder also.

This year our garlic crop was not that great due to the bad weather and lack of rain.  I has an excess of small bulbs and decided to try to make my own garlic powder.  Additionally, the dehydrator was already on the counter from making dried apple rings.

So I took a bunch of the small bulbs and took the skin off of the cloves.

Next, I used the garlic press and squished the cloves onto a dehydrator shelf.

Then I put the shelf into the dehydrator.

After a few hours in the dehydrator, the garlic was dry enough to put into a coffee grinder to grind it down to a powder. The powder is then sifted and the larger pieces reground until it all fits through the sifter.

We are left with a pile just garlic powder.

This is added to the other batch I made yesterday.  I don't think we will need to buy garlic powder for a while!