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Christine Dabney Christine Dabney is offline
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:18:51 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
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>A lot of the food I eat makes more than one meal. A pot of sauce
>makes a number of meals, and some of it went into last night's
>lasagna, and that lasagna will make at least 8 good sized portions.
>I have leftover beef stew in the refrigerator, and I'm thawing a
>chicken for sometime over the weekend. That chicken will be
>dinner along with some vegetables, and will be chicken salad for
>lunch after that.


I do the same thing. I almost have too much food cooking this way...
I find myself having to put portions of whatever I cooked into the
freezer, so that I am not sick of whatever I fixed. However, it pays
off, as I have ready made meals for work..with no extra work.

Right now,I still have two portions of the ribs and kraut in the
freezer, ready to pull out at a moment's notice. Probably for work.
I tried to make a smaller portion of the soup I mentioned earlier, but
it still made a good sized pot, with a lot of turkey in it. I ended
up freezing half of it, to pull out later on for work lunches. That
and a piece of fruit, or a salad will make a nice work dinner for me.

I just made pizza dough and it will rest a day or so in the fridge to
get a good flavor, and then go to pizza one night this weekend. Topped
with "fresh" mozzarella, parmesan, and slivers of garlic...maybe some
basil from the Asian market.

I have also been doing some baking lately... I made several things
from Dorie Greenspan's book Baking: From My Home To Yours. One is a
lovely date-walnut loaf, and the other was a Swedish Visiting Cake. I
am eeking them out to have with my tea every day. I had ingredients
for both of these already here...so they cost me very, very little to
make.

I eat very well..almost too well.

Christine