Pizza Pie

All this pizza could really use some fresh tasty oregano.  No, not fresh oregano, but dried oregano.  No, not store bought brand name oregano.  No, not the far cheaper and infinitely stem-ier option from the foreign foods section oregano.  Fresh homemade dried oregano.

Step One: Pick your homegrown oregano (or pick someone else's, that's what I did.)

Step Two:  Rinse your oregano.

Step Three: Pick off the stem, leaving just leafy greens. (Or is that pick off the leaves, and discard the stems?)  You could probably dehydrate the oregano on the stem, but I figured that would probably just increase the drying time.

Step Four: Place the oregano on your beef jerky machine.

Pictured above: Step Four.

Step Five: Place the beef jerky machine on its lowest heat setting, in this case 95 degrees, and let the fan run to dehydrate and preserve that herb,

Step Six: Wait, I think that ~18 hours is the recommended time to let these leafy herbs dry out.  I just leave the dehydrater running overnight.

Step Seven: Place your herb in a food processor to grind it to a size that is desirable to your target consumer.

Step Eight: Store it as you please.

Pictured above: This is actually home grown basil in an old McCormick Basil container. Psyche your mind!

Step Nine: Add to your favorite pizza pie sauce.  Now we are working with some very unstable herbs!