Frozen Eats
For a long time, my freezer was never full. But in the last year, I've been freezing more food, and buying more frozen food. If the veggie I want doesn't look good fresh, I get it frozen. I use frozen berries in pies, I make cakes and cupcakes and freeze them. What do you always freeze or buy frozen?
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17 Comments:
Haagen-Dazs :)
JEP at 6:52PM on 09/15/07
I always wind up freezing bread. Always double ziplock bag it.
Here are things that seem to wind up in the freezer as well:
1. nuts
2. flours
3. fish (Trader Joe's frozen coho salmon portions, specifically)
4. cheese
5. pizza
6. homemade soup
7. homemade red sauce (always at least one small container, because as soon as I get down to one container, I panic and make a great big pot of it)
8. carob chips
hereandthe at 11:40PM on 09/15/07
Vegetables and stock-- that's really it! : )
Christina at 12:00AM on 09/16/07
The freezer queen says freeze some food! I freeze bread, quick breads, cake, cupcakes, nuts, pasta sauce, meatballs, unfilled cream puffs, puff pastry, frozen hor d'oeuvres, cheese, berries, soup, fish, beef, chicken, all kinds of veggies. I also have got in the habit of buyng a lot of onions chopping them and freezing them for use later. Saves tons of time.
JerzeeTomato at 4:23AM on 09/16/07
I make a batch of muffins every other week and freeze them so I can enjoy them for breakfast before I head off to work. I find that a 2-minute nuke at 20% power warms them up without turning them gummy.
I love buying uncooked IQF (individually quick-frozen) shrimp -- most of the shrimp that you get at the fish counter was "previously frozen" -- why not defrost it yourself? Just run the shrimp under cold water for a few minutes and it's ready to go -- bound to be fresher than whatever was sitting around the counter.
Also, to echo hereandthe's comments earlier, I freeze nuts, flour, and tomato sauce often.
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 9:57AM on 09/16/07
If I have leftover wine (which is rare) I freeze it. It stays a little soft so I can just scoop it out as I need it for cooking.
coolname at 3:53PM on 09/16/07
I see some freezers I'd like to raid :) I also keep plenty of ice cubes.
JEP at 5:03PM on 09/16/07
Unless we're planning on finishing a good loaf of bread in one day, I always freeze half of it (defrost slightly in the microwave and finish in the oven). I also buy a ton of frozen berries, shrimp, edamame, nuts, and petite pois.
ChristineB at 6:10PM on 09/16/07
Frozen peas are the best.
coolname at 6:31PM on 09/16/07
My freezer is really tiny, and I'm seething with jealousy at the wide range of things that everyone seems to be freezing. Because of my freezer's prohibitive size, I only ever have one or two things in it at a time, and it is always fish. Cod, coley, haddock, salmon, etc. We eat fish several days a week, so it takes priority over other frozen foods.
caley at 7:22AM on 09/17/07
This is the time of year to pack and freeze roasted green chile -- one woman I know does 30 sacks! We're a small group and settle for only two -- mild and extra hot. Talk about heat extremes!
hatlady at 11:07AM on 09/17/07
usually you'll find homemade marina, stocks, soups, various cuts of meat (chicken breasts/thighs, beef tenderloins, steaks, pork chops, ground meats), frozen veg (peas, edamame always), blueberries, bananas.
ceforrester at 11:10AM on 09/17/07
I always buy brussels sprouts (which I dearly love) frozen. Fresh taste a little better, but are too much hassle for me to prepare. I also make lots of marinara sauce and store it in the freezer. And a few varieties of indian spice mixes a friend brought me back from India. There's also always a loaf of Fresh Direct sliced sourdough pullman bread and a couple of their frozen thin crust plain pizzas.
rockykay at 1:19PM on 09/17/07
Ice
Ice cream/gelato/sorbet
Nothing else...ever!!!
Bosmer at 2:50PM on 09/17/07
Our freezer often has a lot of meat: chicken breasts, ground beef, etc.
We also have a lot of ice cream :)
When I was in college (last year), my freezer would be stocked with Bagel Bites (not the healthiest I know, but hey, it was college).
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 11:34AM on 09/19/07
I was single for 20 years, living in apartments and raising kids. When I remarried and acquired a much larger family and a house, I said to my husband to be that I wanted a freezer. "There's one on top of the refrigerator," he explained. Sorry. Not when I'm going to be feeding gangs of people. The logic that finally got him was buying meat on sale. He's finally learned the wisdom of it, although the occasional disaster has left us both woeful, like this story. (Yes, that's me.)
http://kwmu.org/Programs/Commentaries/commentary.php?cid=682
lemons at 10:44AM on 09/21/07
can one really freeze cheese?? does it work for all types of cheese?
cristi at 3:24PM on 09/24/07