I had a few tough lemongrass outer leaves and a few ginger peelings kicking about from various recipes which, in a flash of inspiration, I had the genius idea to try infusing in boiling water.

It tasted spectacularly good – much superior to my usual the tea bag option. I’m an enormous fan of lemongrass tea – and what a fabulous way to use something otherwise destined for the bin.

I had a decent stockpile of leaves (from a recipe requiring FIVE lemongrass stalks) and I thought to maybe I would give the dehydrator** a whirl to make them last a little longer.

Of course I dithered about this for much too long – overthinking and perfectionisting like I do with pretty much everything – and everything was getting somewhat sad looking.

But I eventually got there and after many hours was pretty surprised to find that the dehydrated version was much less fragrant than the sad versions I started out with. The garage (where the dehydrating was happening) smelled wonderful though.

I chalked this up to a learning experience and one of those get-that-idea-out-of-your-head-and-into-the-world lessons, but actually it tasted pretty great.

So I’m not entirely sure what the lesson was in all this, but I definitely won’t be tossing out my lemongrass outer leaves or ginger peelings again.

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** In one of the Ruthless Decluttering forays last year we attempted to donate the dehydrator (which I think may have been used once in the last 10 years), but the charity shops weren’t accepting electrical items. Perhaps The Universe was trying to tell me something.