I had a blast doing a big cook today. Ended up with the following:

27 bean burritos
8 quarts (2 gallons) potato soup
29 twice-baked potato halves (I made 15 large potatoes; one half broke)
Around 100 chicken potstickers (made with home-ground chicken thigh meat)
4 quarter-pound burgers made from the leftover potsticker meat (so
they've got scallions and ginger and garlic and stuff in them)
8 or 9 baked chicken thighs
4 or so frozen plain chicken thighs
a bag each of skin/fat for schmaltz, veggie scraps for stock, and
chicken bones for stock
2 quarts of really good refried beans (would've made more burritos, but
I'd only bought 30 tortillas, and three tore because they got too dry)
A quart of leftover kimchi soup (that's what we had for lunch)

I wrote lots more about it at my blog (at the link in the .sig), but it
got pretty long, so don't click unless you want lots of detail. :-)

Serene, really tired
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On Sep 3, 5:26*pm, Serene Vannoy > wrote:
> I had a blast doing a big cook today. Ended up with the following:
>
> 27 bean burritos
> 8 quarts (2 gallons) potato soup
> 29 twice-baked potato halves (I made 15 large potatoes; one half broke)
> Around 100 chicken potstickers (made with home-ground chicken thigh meat)
> 4 quarter-pound burgers made from the leftover potsticker meat (so
> they've got scallions and ginger and garlic and stuff in them)
> 8 or 9 baked chicken thighs
> 4 or so frozen plain chicken thighs
> a bag each of skin/fat for schmaltz, veggie scraps for stock, and
> chicken bones for stock
> 2 quarts of really good refried beans (would've made more burritos, but
> I'd only bought 30 tortillas, and three tore because they got too dry)
> A quart of leftover kimchi soup (that's what we had for lunch)
>
> I wrote lots more about it at my blog (at the link in the .sig), but it
> got pretty long, so don't click unless you want lots of detail. :-)
>
> Serene, really tired
> --http://www.momfoodproject.com

good grief woman.....were you feeding an army???

On 09/03/2011 05:44 PM, ImStillMags wrote:

>
> good grief woman.....were you feeding an army???

Sort of. Two adults and a teenager. But I'm going back to school soon,
so I'm experimenting with once-a-month cooking, which is where you take
a day once a month and fill the freezer with dinners for those days when
you won't have the time/energy to cook. Me, I chose to fill it with
stuff my family likes and can just grab and heat for a quick, healthy
meal. It was fun.

(James is a good cook, but won't bother unless I request it; otherwise,
he'll have sandwiches or corn dogs every day. The kid is, well, a
teenager. And me, I really like to cook, and I loved the planning
involved, so it seemed like a winner of an idea.)

Serene

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good for you!!! Lee

"Serene Vannoy" > wrote in message
...
>I had a blast doing a big cook today. Ended up with the following:
>
> 27 bean burritos
> 8 quarts (2 gallons) potato soup
> 29 twice-baked potato halves (I made 15 large potatoes; one half broke)
> Around 100 chicken potstickers (made with home-ground chicken thigh meat)
> 4 quarter-pound burgers made from the leftover potsticker meat (so they've
> got scallions and ginger and garlic and stuff in them)
> 8 or 9 baked chicken thighs
> 4 or so frozen plain chicken thighs
> a bag each of skin/fat for schmaltz, veggie scraps for stock, and chicken
> bones for stock
> 2 quarts of really good refried beans (would've made more burritos, but
> I'd only bought 30 tortillas, and three tore because they got too dry)
> A quart of leftover kimchi soup (that's what we had for lunch)
>
> I wrote lots more about it at my blog (at the link in the .sig), but it
> got pretty long, so don't click unless you want lots of detail. :-)
>
> Serene, really tired
> --
> http://www.momfoodproject.com

i am having bulk cooking envy!!!! its one of the things i am so looking
forward to when back in the house... we do it a bit differently, we have
several items we like to bulk cook and freeze, we don't have it on a
schedule, but when one of us wants one of those items we just make a lot and
freeze, lasagna, dressing and soup/stew comes to mind, Lee
"Serene Vannoy" > wrote in message
...
> On 09/03/2011 05:44 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
>
>>
>> good grief woman.....were you feeding an army???
>
> Sort of. Two adults and a teenager. But I'm going back to school soon, so
> I'm experimenting with once-a-month cooking, which is where you take a day
> once a month and fill the freezer with dinners for those days when you
> won't have the time/energy to cook. Me, I chose to fill it with stuff my
> family likes and can just grab and heat for a quick, healthy meal. It was
> fun.
>
> (James is a good cook, but won't bother unless I request it; otherwise,
> he'll have sandwiches or corn dogs every day. The kid is, well, a
> teenager. And me, I really like to cook, and I loved the planning
> involved, so it seemed like a winner of an idea.)
>
> Serene
>
> --
> http://www.momfoodproject.com

On 9/4/2011 12:37 AM, Serene Vannoy wrote:
>
> Sort of. Two adults and a teenager. But I'm going back to school soon,
> so I'm experimenting with once-a-month cooking, which is where you take
> a day once a month and fill the freezer with dinners for those days when
> you won't have the time/energy to cook. Me, I chose to fill it with
> stuff my family likes and can just grab and heat for a quick, healthy
> meal. It was fun.

There are only two of us but we tend to cook some things in big batches
and freeze some for later meals.

Beans, spaghetti sauce and chili are good examples. When I run the
smoker, we can put up to 30 pounds of meat which we then portion and
freeze. This year, I have only run the smoker twice.

George L

On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:37:09 -0700, Serene Vannoy wrote:

> On 09/03/2011 05:44 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
>
>>
>> good grief woman.....were you feeding an army???
>
> Sort of. Two adults and a teenager.

most likely feeding a teen equates to feeding an army.

your pal,
blake

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:09:23 -0500, George Leppla
> wrote:

>On 9/4/2011 12:37 AM, Serene Vannoy wrote:
>>
>> Sort of. Two adults and a teenager. But I'm going back to school soon,
>> so I'm experimenting with once-a-month cooking, which is where you take
>> a day once a month and fill the freezer with dinners for those days when
>> you won't have the time/energy to cook. Me, I chose to fill it with
>> stuff my family likes and can just grab and heat for a quick, healthy
>> meal. It was fun.
>
>There are only two of us but we tend to cook some things in big batches
>and freeze some for later meals.
>
>Beans, spaghetti sauce and chili are good examples. When I run the
>smoker, we can put up to 30 pounds of meat which we then portion and
>freeze. This year, I have only run the smoker twice.

I've been doing that for as long as I can remember, why cook the same
dishes several times when you can cook a big batch once, and cooked
foods take much less freezer space... why cook a one pound meat loaf
when it takes the same effort to cook a five pound meat loaf, and meat
loaf freezes very well, meat loaf is easy to reheat but cold meat loaf
sandwiches are excellent. I just had no electric for four days and
none of my containers of stoups defrosted. When the power came back
the first thing I checked was my last Freschetta pizza, was still
frozen so I cooked it... even my ice cube trays were barely beginning
to melt.... it was the quart containers of stoup acting like block ice
that kept everything frozen. My only dilemma was keeping Blackie's
insulin cold, but the convenience store where I buy diesel fuel
accomodated me by keeping my reusable ice packs in their freezer, in
an insulated lunch bag they kept his insulin cold for two days.
The one thing I don't like about frozen pizza is that they skimp on
the diameter of that cardboard disk, it's twice now that I didn't
remove it because the pizza hides it, it's fully 1" smaller than the
pizza diameter, so I phoned them to tell them that they need to make
the cardboard disk larger... they probably won't and being a dago
product they're probably too dumb to figure out how to circumvent the
problem and still use the same diameter disk... not only will my
method resolve the visibilty issue it will also help to support the
package from crushing... just do this 90º apart:
http://i53.tinypic.com/fc5xfs.jpg

On 09/04/2011 09:11 AM, blake murphy wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:37:09 -0700, Serene Vannoy wrote:
>
>> On 09/03/2011 05:44 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> good grief woman.....were you feeding an army???
>>
>> Sort of. Two adults and a teenager.
>
> most likely feeding a teen equates to feeding an army.

True enough. She's six-feet-and-change, and she has a truly impressive
appetite, in more ways than one. (That is, there are days when she
barely eats at all, and then I guess growth-spurt days or something when
no food is safe from her. I was that way, too.)

Serene

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On 09/03/2011 11:06 PM, Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:

> Wow! Good for you! I felt impressed by what we accomplished
> tonight, but it was nothing to what you got done.

Thanks!

>
> OTOH, we were moving furniture and rearranging our little living room
> today.

If I had seven (is it seven?) kids, I would barely be able to get out of
bed in the morning. :-)

Serene

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On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:26:55 -0700, Serene Vannoy
> wrote:

>I had a blast doing a big cook today. Ended up with the following:
>
>27 bean burritos
>8 quarts (2 gallons) potato soup
>29 twice-baked potato halves (I made 15 large potatoes; one half broke)
>Around 100 chicken potstickers (made with home-ground chicken thigh meat)
>4 quarter-pound burgers made from the leftover potsticker meat (so
>they've got scallions and ginger and garlic and stuff in them)
>8 or 9 baked chicken thighs
>4 or so frozen plain chicken thighs
>a bag each of skin/fat for schmaltz, veggie scraps for stock, and
>chicken bones for stock
>2 quarts of really good refried beans (would've made more burritos, but
>I'd only bought 30 tortillas, and three tore because they got too dry)
>A quart of leftover kimchi soup (that's what we had for lunch)
>
>I wrote lots more about it at my blog (at the link in the .sig), but it
>got pretty long, so don't click unless you want lots of detail. :-)
>
>Serene, really tired

Dang you should be, i got tired just reading about it.

koko
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