Freezer cooking...
Oct 15 '00
Freezer cooking is a method everyone will enjoy. It has many names such as frozen assets, once a month cooking, and freezer cooking, just to name a few you might be familiar with.
Freezer cooking is cooking that is done usually once a month and stocking your freezer so you have delicious meals waiting to be taken out and put into the oven.
You can do this monthly, weekly, or daily. Monthly is the biggest chore. Expect to spend at least 8-9 hours in the kitchen on this one, but having a full freezer of food when you are done. I haven't tried this one yet. With small children, it makes it hard to stay there that long.
Weekly is one that I enjoy better. You can cut it down to weekly or 2 weeks and spend about 4-6 hours in the kitchen. I have done both of these.
Daily is my favorite, due to the fact that I will spend as little extra time in the kitchen as possible. This is obtained by cooking double or triple batches, eating one, and freezing the rest for another night.
This is great for single people, elderly, and those just having babies. It is a wonderful gift for a new mom to not have to cook those first few weeks. Or for lunches, to be able to pull a single sized homemade meal out of the freezer and pop it into your lunchbag before work.
It is a wonderful idea for moms also. Less time in the kitchen means more time spent on other things (children, epinions, or, -must I say it-, housework).
I am not going to go into recipes. There are plenty sites for them online, but just want to explain this wonderful method and give you a few tips that I learned while stocking my freezer.
Here are a few tips:
- make a list of all your meals and then make your grocery list off that.
- make sure you have a list for everything you need at the grocery store. Having to run out at the last minute while you have 5 different meals going is not an option.
- don't plan to cook on your shopping day. You will need rest before starting this chore.
- the day before cooking day, make sure you have all the containers you need.
- chop, grate, slice, dice, and cut anything that you can the day before. It will make things easier on cooking day.
- be comfortable. Wear comfortable clothing and shoes, and put your hair up.
I can be as little or as much work as you want (depending on how many nights dinners you are making at once), but when it comes dinnertime and all you have to do is pull dinner out of the freezer and pop it into the oven and make a side dish to go with it, you will be very happy you did it.
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