Freezer Shortcuts 2066D.Currie I've have become quite frugal regarding freezer space. We have an 18 cf freezer in the garage, 7 cf in the house and the SBS...
Spaghetti sauce. When I do a long-cooked sauce, I make it in quanbreasty and freeze portions of it. I usually have some chicken stock, maybe turkey, too. Right now I've got frozen ravioli and pierogi from when I made some large batches of those, but that's not always in there. Sometimes there's soup frozen. That's usually in single portions for my lunch. Usually some sort of produce from when it's cheap and plentiful. Right now I think I've got tomatoes, corn, and green peppers.
Besides that, it's pretty much frozen meat. I buy in bulk when it's cheap. I buy a whole lamb every year, so that's always in there.
I work from home so I'm usually not doing that last-minute-rush kind of cooking. If I know I'll be out most of the day, I might do a crockpot meal. If I don't plan well, I can usually whip up something pretty quickly with what's on hand. Pasta's always good, with some kind of fast, fresh sauce. If I've got frozen shrimp, that cooks in no time, so that can go into the pasta.
Freezer Shortcuts 2067We bought a standalone freezer when I bought the first lamb, and since then it's been pretty much full all the time. Stuff rotates in and out, but I'm always...
The thing is that if I have a short time to cook, it means that I've been out all day, and it's plenty easy to stop by the grocer while I'm dashing around and pick up something to cook that night. Fish cooks in no time at all, or I might pick up a steak for the grill. Or something to cut up and stir-fry.
Donna
