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For the side items I prepare one of my usual ingredients was "Vegetable Flakes" which I used to be able to purchase at Rite Aid until they changed suppliers. I had almost a case of the $1 a bottle containers saved up but my supply is getting thin. This called for rolling up the sleeves measures.
I dug out my food dehydrator and got together the items on the list of ingredients on the side of one of the bottles. Then sliced and diced the stuff up in a marathon and began drying it in the dehydrator. Now I have several quart zip lock plastic bags with enough supply begin to try measuring to get close to what the original compound had in it.
This starts with Carrots, Celery, Cabbage, Onion (which I can buy cheaper than I can process and dry them), Sweet red & green Bell Pepper, Tomato, and finally Leeks.
So I started my first batch with 1 Tb Carrots, 2 1/2 tsp Celery, 2 tsp Cabbage & Onion, 1 3/4 Bell Pepper, 1 1/2 Tomato, and 1 tsp Leeks.
I use about a teaspoon of this stuff when cooking canned corn, green & black eyed peas, hominy, along with some beef stock or part of a cube of bouillon (salty stuff so I don't add extra salt). It could be used in other dishes too just as a flavor enhancer. Of course I add some butter ;)
Believe me it took a pile of veggies to get this quantity. About 10 tomatoes in the bag, 6 large Bell Peppers, a medium head of Cabbage,
a stalk of Celery, 4 large Leeks, and a bag of Carrots.
I purchased all of this stuff fresh (except the Onions) and processed it.
I'd prefer to grow it in the garden. But for this effort in trying to compound a replica of what I could once upon a time purchase I'll work with this stock in small batches.
Spinning the larger dried stuff in the processor to get it fine.
The minced up veggies come out looking like this:
Then I put em in those empty onion flake bottles. But it's a good flavor
source for a lot of dishes.
ETA, Here is a photo of the bottle of "Vegetable Flakes" Rite Aid used to sell. There is no indication on the bottle stating who produced the contents. It only states the ingredients. But at one time Rite Aid Pharmacy Store had a nice selection of cooking herbs and spices. I tried this product as they were having a two for the price of one sale and went back the next day and bought a bunch of it.
I've put some of this in warm water and then placed that in scrambled eggs to make an omelet.
When I made yogurt I put this in it so that I could blend in some sour cream and mayo for a dip.
Put some of it into warm water before blending it into cream cheese (softened in the Microwave) as a bagel spread. I mean, you're only limited by your creativity with this. But I'm sure that getting the
right blend on these veggies is the key to the great flavor it produces. I'm close but not quite there
yet.
I dug out my food dehydrator and got together the items on the list of ingredients on the side of one of the bottles. Then sliced and diced the stuff up in a marathon and began drying it in the dehydrator. Now I have several quart zip lock plastic bags with enough supply begin to try measuring to get close to what the original compound had in it.
This starts with Carrots, Celery, Cabbage, Onion (which I can buy cheaper than I can process and dry them), Sweet red & green Bell Pepper, Tomato, and finally Leeks.
So I started my first batch with 1 Tb Carrots, 2 1/2 tsp Celery, 2 tsp Cabbage & Onion, 1 3/4 Bell Pepper, 1 1/2 Tomato, and 1 tsp Leeks.
I use about a teaspoon of this stuff when cooking canned corn, green & black eyed peas, hominy, along with some beef stock or part of a cube of bouillon (salty stuff so I don't add extra salt). It could be used in other dishes too just as a flavor enhancer. Of course I add some butter ;)
Believe me it took a pile of veggies to get this quantity. About 10 tomatoes in the bag, 6 large Bell Peppers, a medium head of Cabbage,
a stalk of Celery, 4 large Leeks, and a bag of Carrots.
I purchased all of this stuff fresh (except the Onions) and processed it.
I'd prefer to grow it in the garden. But for this effort in trying to compound a replica of what I could once upon a time purchase I'll work with this stock in small batches.
Spinning the larger dried stuff in the processor to get it fine.
The minced up veggies come out looking like this:
Then I put em in those empty onion flake bottles. But it's a good flavor
source for a lot of dishes.
ETA, Here is a photo of the bottle of "Vegetable Flakes" Rite Aid used to sell. There is no indication on the bottle stating who produced the contents. It only states the ingredients. But at one time Rite Aid Pharmacy Store had a nice selection of cooking herbs and spices. I tried this product as they were having a two for the price of one sale and went back the next day and bought a bunch of it.
I've put some of this in warm water and then placed that in scrambled eggs to make an omelet.
When I made yogurt I put this in it so that I could blend in some sour cream and mayo for a dip.
Put some of it into warm water before blending it into cream cheese (softened in the Microwave) as a bagel spread. I mean, you're only limited by your creativity with this. But I'm sure that getting the
right blend on these veggies is the key to the great flavor it produces. I'm close but not quite there
yet.
if the point nazi's will let me.
Well done sir have some 
4 points in a single thread. 
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