I am feeling comfortable enough in my kitchen again that I want to get back into cooking and meal prep. I've been spending more money than I would like on fast/convince foods. Right now I am looking into foods that I can prepare on higher energy days to pop in the freezer and then easily reheat another day. I know there are a lot of recipes for this, so I am feeling a bit overwhelmed! I am wondering if any people here might have specific recipes they might like to suggest? I have access to a stovetop/oven, microwave, blender, toaster, slow cooker, air fryer, and pressure cooker.
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Make this (buttermilk is good but I usually substitute regular milk + vinegar; I often leave off the struesel to save calories), cut it into squares, and then freeze the squares individually.
https://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-blueberry-pancake-casserole-231965#post-recipe-11615
Also anything that's curry-like or soup-y seems to do pretty well for me. I'll see if I can remember anything else.
Ooo that sounds good! I will have to try it out sometime.
And yeah! I have one of those cube freezie things where I can freeze like a cup of soup/curry/stew into 1 cup sized cubes. I should see if I still have it and start using it again.
I haven't tried any of my things I prepped for my recovery yet bc people got me perishables I gotta eat through first but I have been eating the breakfast sandwiches I prepped that are just frozen English muffins with cheese and Canadian bacon then eggs (for eggs I basically made almost quiche and sliced it up, it's a glass baking dish I filled with half a dozen eggs, milk, salt, pepper, spinach, canned diced tomatoes, garlic, and onion powder and baked and sliced into squares for sandwiches) individually baggied. I throw one in the fridge the night before so it cooks better in the morning in my toaster oven since I don't have a microwave.
I went back to not being a huge breakfast person, but today I watched a video where someone made breakfast stuffed cornbread muffins that can be frozen and it had me like 👀
It's definitely a higher effort one for the prep, but I love these dumplings from Cook's Illustrated nov/dec 2017 issue (link to a photo of the magazine page; it's probably online but likely paywall'd)
The time consuming bit is the filling process; we usually sit down together (and sometimes recruit a sibling, but that means sharing 😅) and do it assembly-line style with me rolling and Em filling. We've done it with storebought wrappers, but they were thinner and less satisfying; an OK trade for the effort saved but I do think the homemade wrapper dough is worth it.
They freeze beautifully, and you can pop 'em in a pan from the freezer!
We love dumplings 👀 Thank you for sharing. I think that would be fun to make sometime!
I posted my spaghetti sauce recipe tonight, yields a buttload of sauce which can then be portioned out, frozen, and thawed as necessary: https://cohost.org/MrBeefgnaw/post/2691959-the-spaghetti-sauce