Two Hour Freezer Cooking

Today I began to do some freezer cooking. What I got accomplished only took me a little over an hour and a half.

First I put on some potato sausage, which I found at the meat market yesterday. It was only $1.38 a pound, so I bought three pounds. It has diced potatoes and green peppers, and a lot of seasoning in it. After tasting it, I wish I had bought more. I sautéed it in crumbled pieces, and then put it in a bowl to cool.

Next I put in some Italian Sausage to crumble and fry up. Once I had this in a bowl, I made sausage gravy out of the drippings and set that in a bowl to cool.

Once that was done, I cleaned the pan and put in about 4 pounds of hamburger to fry up with diced onion, green pepper, and carrots. I added garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, paprika, chili powder, salt and pepper. Once finished, I removed a big bowl for tacos and another to mix with rice and tomatoes for stuffed peppers.

With the ground beef mixture that was left, I mixed in tomato sauce, tomato paste, and a can of crushed tomatoes, some Italian seasonings, and let simmer for an hour for a big pot of spaghetti sauce.

While that was simmering, I used my food processor to dice up onion, green pepper, carrots, and celery, and put them all in baggies so that I have them handy.

Later, I used the cooked ground beef, and made stuffed green peppers for dinner.

Now we have food all bagged up either in the fridge or freezer for things like tacos, nachos, chili, in eggs for breakfast, or whatever I can think of.

Tomorrow I am going to cook up some chicken to make chicken broth, and shred the chicken and bag it up for soups, sandwiches, salads, nachos, or whatever.

Homemade Febreze

My sister is also big on making her own things, or saving money. Okay, mostly saving money. She's made everything from her own laundry detergent to her own hamburger buns. Here is a way to make your own Febreze:

Febreze

1/8th cup fabric softener
2 Tbl baking soda
hot tap water
32 oz spray bottle

Mix and put in spray bottle

Food Watch: Chef Robert Irvine's Lasagna

How many of you watch Restaurant Impossible? We watch it every week. My son would love me to try some of Chef Robert Irvine’s recipes, so I am going to do that in a couple of days. This is my plan:

Winner’s Circle Lasagna Recipe

This recipe won awards, as well as I think most of Chef Irvine’s recipes. It looks really easy to make.

I am also going to make my own wonton wrappers to use. The recipe I got here:

Homemade Wonton Wrappers

These also look easy. If you try these recipes before I do, let me know how they turn out.