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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 488702" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Janet, do you ever have a "better" day when you can put in an hour or so of "work"... not on your feet, but in the kitchen?</p><p></p><p>If so... I did this when the kids were small and both time and money were tight:</p><p></p><p>Take a good, big electric frying pan. Now, you're going to make this thing WORK, but you'll only clean it once.</p><p></p><p>Whip up a pan-ful of hamburger patties, and get them cooking... you want them to be "almost" cooked, but not quite... at which point you take them out and put into something to cool then into fridge. (more processing later)</p><p></p><p>While those are cooking, do up a pan's worth of meatballs... same cooking rules, same process, different container when you're done.</p><p></p><p>When those come out, fill the pan about half full of crumbled ground, add spices *, and cook that up - still moist, just barely cooked... into container #3.</p><p></p><p>* spices... in our house, 1 likes mild, 2 like medium, and 1 likes screamo-hot... so, we cook medium, and spice up from there... medium = black pepper, a wee bit of salt, garlic powder, meat tenderizer (yes, with ground. trust me.), and a couple pinches of cayenne. husband adds cayenne and/or hot pepper flakes at the table.</p><p></p><p>NOW... add some water and such to the pan, and cook up the drippings.</p><p></p><p>Ok. Leave THAT pan for Billie to clean <ya right!></p><p></p><p>For each container... divide into meal-sized portions. Freeze all but ONE - you'll use one of each in the next 3-4 days. Add some of the cooked-up drippings to the meatball and plain-ground portions before you freeze.</p><p> </p><p>Here's what you do with them...</p><p></p><p>Hamburger patties... into micro, with cream of whatever on top, heat to boiling, serve with any kind of starch. (bun, rice, potato, pasta, whatever)</p><p>Meatballs... ditto.</p><p>Plain ground... </p><p>- shepherds pie</p><p>- tacos - have some spicy salsa available to Tony can spice up his, yours won't be hot</p><p>- sloppy joes</p><p>- plain, over rice, with veggies on top</p><p></p><p>One frypan and one dirty counter should give you 10-15 meals - and only one major clean, not 10-15!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 488702, member: 11791"] Janet, do you ever have a "better" day when you can put in an hour or so of "work"... not on your feet, but in the kitchen? If so... I did this when the kids were small and both time and money were tight: Take a good, big electric frying pan. Now, you're going to make this thing WORK, but you'll only clean it once. Whip up a pan-ful of hamburger patties, and get them cooking... you want them to be "almost" cooked, but not quite... at which point you take them out and put into something to cool then into fridge. (more processing later) While those are cooking, do up a pan's worth of meatballs... same cooking rules, same process, different container when you're done. When those come out, fill the pan about half full of crumbled ground, add spices *, and cook that up - still moist, just barely cooked... into container #3. * spices... in our house, 1 likes mild, 2 like medium, and 1 likes screamo-hot... so, we cook medium, and spice up from there... medium = black pepper, a wee bit of salt, garlic powder, meat tenderizer (yes, with ground. trust me.), and a couple pinches of cayenne. husband adds cayenne and/or hot pepper flakes at the table. NOW... add some water and such to the pan, and cook up the drippings. Ok. Leave THAT pan for Billie to clean <ya right!> For each container... divide into meal-sized portions. Freeze all but ONE - you'll use one of each in the next 3-4 days. Add some of the cooked-up drippings to the meatball and plain-ground portions before you freeze. Here's what you do with them... Hamburger patties... into micro, with cream of whatever on top, heat to boiling, serve with any kind of starch. (bun, rice, potato, pasta, whatever) Meatballs... ditto. Plain ground... - shepherds pie - tacos - have some spicy salsa available to Tony can spice up his, yours won't be hot - sloppy joes - plain, over rice, with veggies on top One frypan and one dirty counter should give you 10-15 meals - and only one major clean, not 10-15! [/QUOTE]
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