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Hank Rogers[_2_]

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> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:58:22 -0400, Doris Night
> > wrote:
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>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:22:04 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
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>>> My friend Susan fixes meals for from 7-15 every time. It's a big
>>> extended family and they all live within 4-5 houses of each other.
>>> While some of it is a family 'pot luck style' (where others take turns
>>> bring things), they also contribute to the budget.
>>>
>>> As a result, Susan does a lot of 'cook once, eat many' type dishes.
>>> Commonly ground beef will be cooked right away and drained then frozen
>>> in suitable amounts. This not only in the long run saves time in her
>>> case, but it also takes up less space since the fat has been drained
>>> off.
>>>
>>> When cooking one ham, she says she's apt to cook a second at the same
>>> time then break it down and freeze the 2nd one for other dishes.
>>
>> I do the ground beef thing. It's hard to find a package of ground beef
>> less than 500 grams, and that's to much for us, so I'll fry it all up
>> and freeze half for a different meal.
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> 500 grams of ground beef is barely enough for two skimpy burgers for
> us... I typically prepare 12 ounce burgers.
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Yoose are a liteweight Penfart. Yoose should make 1 lb burgers like a
real he-man would do.