Ginger powder production

The aroma of ginger and turmeric drying in the dehydrator is absolutely heavenly. 

Today I have processed our ginger that Rob pulled up a while back. Ginger isn't supposed to be that easy to grow in the sub-tropics however we have a nice collection of it here from our first ever little crop.

I wanted to see if it is just as easy to turn into powder as turmeric is so I sliced it up into thin pieces.

After drying it in the dehydrator I let it sit and cool overnight and all of this morning. Then I put it into the trusty whizzer gadget and turned it on for about 30 seconds. The ginger actually heats up quite a bit when it is in the blender, so luckily 30 seconds is ample time.

Dried ginger.

The yellow is stain from processing turmeric. 

The ginger has to be sifted just like the turmeric to leave you with the fine ginger powder.

Voila! The smell is just incredible.

This will be stored in glass jars and used for ginger biscuits, stir-fries, did I mention ginger biscuits?..

Each year we have a pair of parrots making a nest in our nest box. Here you can see the missus checking out the scene before she heads inside to do nesting business.

And....it rained at last. We got a little over an inch so it filled our tanks up quite a bit and the ground got a shallow soak. We are meant to get more next week all up and down the east coast of Australia. We need another couple of inches to get some grass growing in the paddock again.

So that's it for this week. Please share ;) I hope you have something fun planned for your weekend.