Dishes that can be frozen

beertons

The Lady is due in two weeks, and is looking at cooking a few dishes now, and freezing them. She did a little search and told me that all she could freeze is shepards pie and lassagne. Boring. I'm not mad on either. Can I get a few suggestions here as to what other dishes I can do?

The Hill Billy

You can easily freeze bolognese & similar italian sauces, curries, chilli, stews. Any dish with a decent liquid content really. You may want to stay away from highly flavoured dishes if your lady plans on breast feeding.

The good folk over in the Parenting/Pregnancy fora may be able to offer more advice also.

Mary-Ellen

Bolognese, curry (chinese, thai/grean red), stew, chicken casserole
Anything really with a sauce will defrost ok left in a fridge the night before

I prefer to cook pasta/ rice/ potatoes on the night

duploelabs

beertons wrote: »

The Lady is due in two weeks, and is looking at cooking a few dishes now, and freezing them. She did a little search and told me that all she could freeze is shepards pie and lassagne. Boring. I'm not mad on either. Can I get a few suggestions here as to what other dishes I can do?

If you wait to get things underway, a good chilli will suffice, working on our first

trackguy

Spag Bol
Meatballs
Any curry
Chilli con carne
Beef/ Lamb Stew
Casseroles
Soup

shinikins

As previous posters have said, you can freeze pretty much anything you can think of. The Americans are crazy about it(of course they tend to have massive freezers to store all these meals in too) try googling "freezer meals" or "make ahead freezer meals" for some ideas. Here's one blog that had me boggle eyed with her organisational skills-46 meals made in 4 hours to be frozen!! Oh to have the freezer space

JohnK

There was actually an article on Time about a week ago on just that topic where people were cooking once a month and freezing everything :eek:

They linked to Food.com who have a list of 7,000 recipes that can be cooked ahead of time and frozen so you'll probably find something there

beertons

thanks for all the suggestions. herself tore into the cooking yesterday, and didn't listen to any of what i relayed to her. only one meal from 12 was sauce based. why she asked me, i'll never know. i don't like the look of any of them either.

stargazer 68

beertons wrote: »

thanks for all the suggestions. herself tore into the cooking yesterday, and didn't listen to any of what i relayed to her. only one meal from 12 was sauce based. why she asked me, i'll never know. i don't like the look of any of them either.

Then I suggest you get your apron on!! :rolleyes:

Love To Cook

Just another little pointer....The spices in chilli, curries etc really lose their potency when they are frozen, so you'll probably need to pep the dish up again with more spice before eating. Also, if the recipe calls for cream or fresh herb put these in just before serving and you'll get better flavour.