Since I took down my fall decorations and replaced them with Christmas decorations, I had two pie pumpkins to cook up. I had never done this before, but it wasn't too bad. I ended up with 7 cups of pumpkin puree and more than a cup of roasted pumpkins seeds.
I also baked my $.40-per-pound-turkey and ended up with a lot of turkey meat! I made five different turkey dishes, as well as seasoned turkey meat for tacos. For the taco meat, I just used 4 cups of turkey, added about .5 cup of water or so, and 1 envelope of taco seasoning. I simmered it till the liquid was evaporated.
I made Tex-Mex Turkey Soup, and it was A LOT OF SOUP! It nearly filled my Dutch oven. I know we will get at least 3 meals out of it, so I poured it in to 3 different dishes for freezing.
I also ended up with two meal-size portions of Turkey Broccoli Supreme, 1 meal of Secondhand Turkey, 1 turkey potpie, and 1 cheese quiche. Quiche is really quite frugal. I only use two eggs and a cup or two milk (depending on the pie pan) per quiche. I'll put a recipe on here sometime.
So, all in all, I have 9 meals in the deep freezer! I was pretty pleased with the day, and maybe next time, I'll be even more ambitious!
3 lovely comments:
Do you freeze your dishes in a special freezer dish, or just in a normal pan? How do you keep it from getting freezer burnt?
I really don't know what I'm doing, to be honest, but I just wrapped them in aluminum foil. Then I put them in gallon-size Ziploc bags, and forced out as much air as possible. From what I understand, it's the air that causes the freezer burn. I'll let you know if I experience freezer burn. I also plan to use them this month, so I don't anticipate a long freezing time.
Thanks! ;)
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