Freezer Cooking

Wow, what a weekend. It started Friday with another round of freezer cooking. If you are not familiar with this, let me explain. Once a month a group of ladies get together and make about 15 meals for the up coming month. Place them in the freezer, and Voila! dinner is ready. Just take out of the freezer, thaw and cook. It is a great help. We never need to stop at the fast food joint anymore. Dinner is a reheat away. And the food is good. We have only had one or two recipes we won't make again. The girls who came this month were Misty J, Adrienne J, Sandy W, and Me (cooking for Dawna). It was a great time of fellowship. Stephanie H is our trusty sitter while this is all going on.

Here is what we cooked:

Meatloaf x2

French toast casserole

Cranberry Chicken ( one of our favorites)

Citrus Fish marinade

Chicken Nuggets

Untidy Josephs (aka Sloppy Joes)

Taco rice -for taco salad or nachos

Chicken Tetrazzini

Chicken Enchilladas

Stuffed Pasta Shells

Herbed Chicken

Stomboli

It took about 3 1/2 hours to complete. Not bad for not having to cook at least 13 meals. The cost for all of this was around $60. It could have been less, but I opted for the more expensive organic ingredients wherever possible.

Here are some pictures of our fun

Sandy chopping

Mama Cooking

The finished cooler for Misty to take home.

I love cooking. And eating it to.

So, after all of this is done, I don't want to cook. What do we do? Go to The Breadladies of course. Where else do you go on a Friday night? They have great sandwiches and live music on Friday nights. Check them out http://www.thebreadladies.com/

Here are the kids dancing to some jazzy rock. Aren't they cute? Luke is the boy in the picture. He lives down the road. Grace and he play a lot.

So cute!!

Cameron (left) and his other brother Harrison