So... What are YOU doing? - Part 3

[Cassia]

Thai food is awesome. I used to work a couple of blocks from an amazing Thai restaurant. It was horribly expensive, but every once in a while the boss would take the team out for lunch and claim it as a team building expense

Thai ingredients are really easy to duplicate with just a few easy to find ingredients. I find the spice blends make great combinations too. Mighty powerful tastes that I didn't know could be duplicated at home.

I've been researching recipes for years and the Thai flavor combination is dynamite. Gastronomically the higher road ... lol

 

[MoreCoffee]

It's a lovely sunny day here, nice temperature (26c) and I sat outside in my garden watching the ants going up and down the path climbing a vine and getting something to take back to the nest and I watched the bees harvesting from the flowers. Lots of bees. Must be tasty nectar in the flowers.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I just started experimenting with that flavor combination. Ethiopion is exceptional too. Sometimes I'll eat borscht for days. But I usually like to cook once and eat for a few meals. So it tends to be much of the same thing.

My approach is similar but I do sometimes separate portions from the main dish and freeze them for use later. My freezer space is fairly generous so it makes a good place to keep a mix of meals stored for later use.

 

[Cassia]

My approach is similar but I do sometimes separate portions from the main dish and freeze them for use later. My freezer space is fairly generous so it makes a good place to keep a mix of meals stored for later use.

I must have a slight case of ocd cause I can't stay logged in for long .anyway. I freeze a lot of meals too but lately just to get out and about I've been getting produce every few days. I like to have a main dish, a soup and hopefully a salad just to have in the fridge so there's a mishmash of things there.

 

[Lamb]

Has anyone ever had success with freezing potatoes that were baked or roasted? When I remove any dish from the freezer that has potatoes the potatoes are mush.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Has anyone ever had success with freezing potatoes that were baked or roasted? When I remove any dish from the freezer that has potatoes the potatoes are mush.

You can buy frozen potatoes for baking. They manage to be non-mush. Maybe the speed of freezing matters? I haven't tried to freeze potatoes unless they were part of a stew or something similar and they came out okay for me.

 

[Lamb]

It was my recent beef stew that didn't hold up too well after removing from the freezer and thawing. I heated it up and the potatoes fell apart. So gross.

 

[MoreCoffee]

It was my recent beef stew that didn't hold up too well after removing from the freezer and thawing. I heated it up and the potatoes fell apart. So gross.

Try nuking them rather than allowing them to thaw.

 

[Stravinsk]

Has anyone ever had success with freezing potatoes that were baked or roasted? When I remove any dish from the freezer that has potatoes the potatoes are mush.

I haven't had this problem. Although I sometimes freeze (cooked) potatoes, I often dehydrate them now. I have some in a jar that have lasted for months.

 

[Stravinsk]

As for thawing - steamer add ons to a cooking pot are very cheap and handy.

 

[MoreCoffee]

As for thawing - steamer add ons to a cooking pot are very cheap and handy.

I like steamers and steamed foods They are best in late autumn when the air is dry and the temperatures low. The steam doesn't condense on the windows under those conditions

 

[Stravinsk]

I like steamers and steamed foods They are best in late autumn when the air is dry and the temperatures low. The steam doesn't condense on the windows under those conditions

It's a very handy device - the one I have is merely a circular mesh that folds to the size of whatever pot you are using, and it has little metal knobs on the bottom to raise it from the bottom of the pot - this is where your water goes. I use it often to steam frozen stuff for a very quick thaw.

 

[Lamb]

As for thawing - steamer add ons to a cooking pot are very cheap and handy.

I have a microwave steamer but didn't think of using it!

 

[Cassia]

Eastern Canadians are skilled at freezing potatoes but I've heard not to freeze because of mush. I have in stews but adding the potatoes to the dish fresh steamed makes sense.

 

[Rens]

Been biking here and there with 5 boys and we went to the woods to make an action movie.

 

[Lamb]

Been biking here and there with 5 boys and we went to the woods to make an action movie.

I miss biking!

Did the boys dress up at all in costume for their movie?

 

[Rens]

I miss biking!

Did the boys dress up at all in costume for their movie?

Lol no, it was a chaotic movie. A kid in school went to a movie maker who added all kind of special effects and the youngest wanted that too. I need a program for that.
Maybe he has it on his ipad.

 

[Lamb]

I'm so jealous at all the creative things kids can do these days! When I was younger it was crayons and paper to do anything

 

[Rens]

never mind lol

 

[MoreCoffee]

I'm so jealous at all the creative things kids can do these days! When I was younger it was crayons and paper to do anything

Crayons and paper is all anybody needs as a child. The imagination makes up for all the rest. I imagined all sorts of wonderful things when I was a child. I still imagine many wonderful things. God is good in allowing one to remember and still to possess an imagination