Experimenting with this year's acorns!
So there's this awesone challenge 
Here's the link to that challenge for you:
https://steempeak.com/build-it/@naturalmedicine/and
So my original idea was to make a solar dehydrator for our off-grid community. This would be used ro dry different wildcrafted medicinal herbs and whatever else we cpuld fit in there. I was getting the plans from this site:
https://offgridquest.com/fload/diy/best-ever-solar-food-dehydrator-plans?start=3
The build seems pretty straightforward if you're handy, but with the holidays and not living at pur place this winter, I can't see having the time to get started on this for the challenge. I know, excuses excuses... All I have are excuses!
So instead I made something I have never made; gluten-free pancakes. I'm not a no wheat diet type of person, not yet, but as I'm diving deeper into the world of re-wilding my interest in eating food meant for human consumption is growing.
At the same time... I would like to make this post my entry to 
Here's what I did (proudly without looking it up online!):
Ingredients:
- 1 banana
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
- 3 tbs of acorn meal
- dried blue berries
- fresh cranberries
I cut the banana into a bowl, cracked the eggs into it, added my acorns then mashed and mixed it all up with a fork.
In the meantime I had heated up a pan with some coconut oil to cook the craneberries to soften them up.
Once that was ready I kust mixed it into the pancake batter with the cinnamon and that was it. I made sure all the banana pieces were properly smooshed and got my pan ready with some more coconut oil.
Perhaps coconut oil wasn't the best oil to use because of its high temperature. I almost burnt the banana mixture, even on low flames, so for next time I'll have to rethink the cooking oil.
It only made about 8 silver dollar size pancakes but that was just right for one person and they were freakin delocious. Because this was an experiment I didn't want to waste too mich if it came out awefull, like my first batch of acorn porridge that turned out so very bitter!!!!
Disclamer: The only ingredient that was gathered from the land was the acorn meal, next were the eggs that came from a friend's chickens, the rest however were all store bought, tho mostly organic they are far from being the things of a bio-regional diet.
