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.