The one thing I hope to get Nicole to learn from me since we’ll be closer and be cooking together is to cook ahead. When life was “normal” instead of the crazy TX/MO shuffle we seem to be doing now, I’d always cook extra so that every third or fourth week, we ate out of the freezer. That’s a nice break for the cook/dishwasher.
Today I made eggplant parmesan as part of our dinner and had enough eggplant to make a larger dish and a smaller dish for the freezer. Nicole and Addie are here for dinner so we’ll use the larger dish tonight. Having food in the freezer that we like often keeps us from going out to eat when I’m too tired or too busy to cook.
I don’t even have to think twice about it now. Some dishes are better as leftovers than others so I only freeze the things I know will be good but if I cook 7 – 10 meals per week, and manage to safe even three or four per week, it doesn’t take long to have enough to be able to pull meals from the freezer for a week.
Here, I have two fridges with freezers but no big freezer so I doubt I’ll be able to stock up too many prepared meals til we’re able to get a freezer from Texas moved here or buy a new one.
Paula Nordt says
This is our third full summer of bee keeping. I need another freezer to store frames with old wax to kill any beetles or wax moths that might be hiding in them. Sharing my food freezer right now, so not much room to store frozen meals. It’s an odd combination!
pat says
I thought you didn’t like red sauce . but it is on the eggplant.
Judy Laquidara says
I scrape the red sauce off and eat the eggplant but Vince loves it all.
Joyce says
One summer I half filled my freezer with spinning fiber I bought at an estate sale. We saw signs of moths, so everyone stuck all the fiber they had bought in the freezer to kill bugs. Right now I wouldn’t have any room in my freezer for fiber…LOL
Cindy says
You may want to try to buy a freezer before you decide not to move yours from Texas. I have looked for months and can’t find one anywhere! No used, or new, except for a very high end one for $7000. Not buying that for the garage! They tell me there is a nationwide shortage in these crazy times… a friend tried to get a new mattress from a local furniture store and there is a 12-16 month wait for delivery!
Judy Laquidara says
We had never planned to bring ours from Texas but there are none to be found here so we will bring two of them.
The mattress – I think it depends on what kind and where. The people we bought our house from were able to get new mattresses since we bought the ones here.