...Hello Everyone!
...it seems like convenience food/cooking is all the rage right now...with meal delivery options...'five day freeze'...and 30 day batch cooking...
...I do often freeze leftovers to be eaten later...but I don't usually intentionally cook things and then immediately freeze them...
...but we are about to start Lent...and so I thought it'd be a good idea to have some handy already portioned meals in the freezer to make our busy evenings a little bit easier...
...so I started with a big pot of brown rice...
...I cook my brown rice like pasta...and a big pot of water...
...I don't let it absorb all of the water...but just cook freely in the water just like pasta...
...and then when the grains which have remained entirely separate are nice and soft...
...I strain it...just like pasta...
...and I have perfectly cooked fluffy brown rice...
...I seriously think I use my muffin tins more for freezing than for cooking...
...I just pack the rice into the muffin cups...for perfect 1/2 cup servings...
...next up is a big protein packed quinoa/black bean dish that can be a main or a side...
...not really a recipe...but here's what I did...
...chopped up a red onion...
...and a red bell pepper...I want a nice colourful dish...
...and pressed some garlic...
...I water sautéed these...and then added a whole package of quinoa...
...we are batch cooking after all...and this is a big batch...
...next...in went a big can of diced tomatoes...
...and then a lb. of black beans cooked in the crock pot...
...and finally a bag of frozen corn...
...doesn't it look pretty?...
...I packed it into another muffin tin for individual servings...and a couple of freezer containers for family side dishes...
...and now the brown rice is frozen solid...
...so I dipped the muffins into some warm water...and popped out the little cups of frozen rice...
...and sealed them up in a ziplock bag...
...and when the quinoa was frozen...
...I did the same with it...
...and finally this was a big batch of my favorite Wendy's Chili Veganized...
...and I was so certain that I'd already shared this on the blog that I didn't even take photos of the making of it...
...but when I just searched the blog to find the link to post here...alas...no link...I must never have shared that...
...so that will have to be a future post...but I have a big bag of Wendy's Chili Veganized...
...have you ever done any batch cooking?...
~Have a lovely day!
Always good to have something in the freezer! Going to make some simple buckwheat flour pancakes for this evening. I like mine with a squeezed orange and sugar as we had when I was a child. Lemon seems to be the prevailing favourite in the country but not for me.
ReplyDeletethat is a cool process and very handy!
ReplyDeletelove, k