cooking ahead of time
 

I cook up a large batch of noodles, put them in individual baggies, and freeze.
They are easily heated up later, for one, two, or?

Nancree

Nancree wrote:
> I cook up a large batch of noodles, put them in individual baggies, and freeze.
> They are easily heated up later, for one, two, or?
>
> Nancree

I usually cook pasta as I need it, but I do cook and freeze rice. Add a
teaspoon or so of water, zap it in the microwave -- good as just-cooked.

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Charlene Charette > wrote in message nk.net>...
> Nancree wrote:
> > I cook up a large batch of noodles, put them in individual baggies, and freeze.
> > They are easily heated up later, for one, two, or?
> >
> > Nancree
>
> I usually cook pasta as I need it, but I do cook and freeze rice. Add a
> teaspoon or so of water, zap it in the microwave -- good as just-cooked.
>
> --Charlene
>
> --
> Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given.
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Good idea, I'll try it with rice, too.
Nancree

Charlene Charette > wrote in
k.net:

> Nancree wrote:
>> I cook up a large batch of noodles, put them in individual baggies,
>> and freeze.
>> They are easily heated up later, for one, two, or?
>>
>> Nancree
>
> I usually cook pasta as I need it, but I do cook and freeze rice. Add
> a teaspoon or so of water, zap it in the microwave -- good as
> just-cooked.
>
> --Charlene
>

I do the same thing with hot water. Put it in ice cube trays and freeze
it, then put the cubes in baggies.

Later, when I need hot water, just a few minutes in the microwave and I'm
all set!

ScottR

>Goomba38
>
>nancree wrote:
>> Charlene Charette wrote:
>>>Nancree wrote:
>>>
>>>>I cook up a large batch of noodles, put them in individual baggies, and
>freeze.
>>>
>>>I usually cook pasta as I need it, but I do cook and freeze rice.
>>
>> Good idea, I'll try it with rice, too.
>
>I don't get it? Boiling water for noodles is too
>easy, and saves the expense of the baggie. Rice
>only takes 20 minutes, so I can spare that time
>also. If I'm making something ahead, it's usually
>stuff that would be more time consuming or
>difficult that having it oh hand is truly a
>time/effort/cost savings.

I suppose it depends on *how* one cooks, as in "creativity"... for example;
three days ago I cooked up wild rice to go with pork chops, but I cooked 2 full
cups, so I had lots left. The next day day I cooked a big pot roast that was
also a soup, because I used one of those cellophane packets of Goodman's dry
soup mix (veggie-shroom). So yesterday I ate a bowl of the soup and sliced
roast with a side of the left over rice... still plenty wild rice left.
Tonight I pre-sliced the rest of the pot roast and it's heating in the soup but
I added the rest of the wild rice too, it's heating right now and smells
wonderful. Oh, for lunch today I sliced up the poor lonely left over pork chop
and added it to a bowl of doctored Ramen. I wouldn't typically want to cook up
any kind of rice separately three days in a row, and wild rice can take more
than an hour... plus it's not just cooking time, there's the prep and clean up.
And I didn't use any zip-locs to store the LO rice, simply fridged it in its
cookpot. Btw, I never in my life cooked less that the full pound of pasta...
and I like pasta better the next day than when it was fresh made... In fact
next to cold LO Chinese take-out for breakfast I like cold pasta best,
'specially if there are a few saw-seege in it.


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On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:12:55 GMT, Scott Robins
> arranged random neurons, so they
looked like this:

>I do the same thing with hot water. Put it in ice cube trays and freeze
>it, then put the cubes in baggies.
>
>Later, when I need hot water, just a few minutes in the microwave and I'm
>all set!

Huh? Am I missing something here? Why would you freeze water to later
heat it up? Why wouldn't you just take the tap or bottled water at
room temperature and heat it up? A whole lot less energy and time
consumed AFAICS. Or did I not catch something?

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
good dinner." Duncan Hines

To reply, remove replace "spaminator" with "cox"

In article > , Scott
Robins > wrote:
(snip)
> I do the same thing with hot water. Put it in ice cube trays and freeze
> it, then put the cubes in baggies.
>
> Later, when I need hot water, just a few minutes in the microwave and I'm
> all set!
>
> ScottR

Shame on you! LOL!!
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In article >, Terry Pulliam
Burd > wrote:

> On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:12:55 GMT, Scott Robins
> > arranged random neurons, so they
> looked like this:
>
> >I do the same thing with hot water. Put it in ice cube trays and freeze
> >it, then put the cubes in baggies.
> >
> >Later, when I need hot water, just a few minutes in the microwave and
> >I'm
> >all set!
>
> Huh? Am I missing something here? Why would you freeze water to later
> heat it up? Why wouldn't you just take the tap or bottled water at
> room temperature and heat it up? A whole lot less energy and time
> consumed AFAICS. Or did I not catch something?
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
> AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

What you missed was that it's a joke. :-)
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On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:13:36 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> arranged random neurons, so they looked
like this:

>What you missed was that it's a joke. :-)

Well, dang. Did I mention that I just moved into a new house and about
90% of my brain cells are engaged in trying to convince my body that I
am NOT exhausted, I WILL go to work in the morning, I am NOT going to
lie down on the floor and stay there until Thanksgiving...

Yeah, I missed it b/c I'm dead from the top of my red head down :-)
But I have a guest room now and a cool ocean view <blink, blink,
blink!>

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
good dinner." Duncan Hines

To reply, remove replace "spaminator" with "cox"

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 17:10:01 -0400, Goomba38 >
wrote:

>I don't get it? Boiling water for noodles is too
>easy, and saves the expense of the baggie. Rice
>only takes 20 minutes, so I can spare that time
>also.

Yeah, but...1 cup of rice makes 4-5 portions. For 1 or 2, it's handy
to bag single portions for zapping later.