Feeling fruity

After discussions about various fruit leather, I decided to make my own. Fruit roll ups are gross and everything else is too expensive.

I started last night by cleaning my strawberries (strawberry fans, Aldi's on Mattis has them for 1.49 a box and they are super tasty, some of the best I've had all season) and blueberries. Then this morning, I got up and cleaned the cherries. That was tedious beyond belief and likely something I won't do again.

Then I whipped out the blender and set about pureeing my fruit. I knew the strawberries would be fine but I was worried about the skins on the cherries. The cherries did fine, suprisingly. The blueberries were what I ended up having problems with. When I first started them, the skin didn't blend at all. I scraped the sides and set it to blend again, walking away and letting it run for a minute. I came back to almost blueberry jelly. It was thick and gelatinous and kind of gross looking. It probably could have benefitted from a little OJ but I went ahead and used it as is.

I lined all my trays with foil (although in reading, other places said either parchment paper or platic wrap so hopefully it works out) and poured all my puree. Now, I wait between 5 hours (online recipe) and a day and a half (dehydrator instruction guide) to see if my attempt at fruit leather is eatable :)