Artisan Bread (baking 4 loaves at a time)
Nearly every meal I prepare consists of foods I have cooked or baked in bulk and frozen. I thaw items in a plastic shoe box to prevent condensation dripping onto my shelves (I’ve learned from experience). Then I shop my freezer from my freezer inventory, to see what goodies I can thaw and serve to my family and others. I write these items down on a seven-day menu plan and post it on my refrigerator as a reminder to thaw my food 24 hours ahead of time. Typically right after the dishes are done, I check my menu plan and put new items into my thawing box and slash them off my freezer inventory. Here’s what I’m thawing this week…
We rotate the same breakfast items each week:
- Freezer waffles with fresh/frozen seasonal fruit, homemade syrup
- Homemade Crock pot yogurt with homemade granola
- Oatmeal with cranberries, walnuts and raw sugar
- Cheerios with bananas and milk
- Scrambled eggs and quick bread like banana or zucchini
- No Boil Lasagna (new freezer-friendly recipe), salad, Artisan Bread with Carrabbas olive oil dipping sauce
- Blender Brunch Quiche, frozen healthier biscuits, strawberries
Chicken Braid with frozen convenience chicken and broccoli, sweet potatoes (baking extra and freezing), salad with Homemade Greek Dressing- Salmon Patties, homefries, salad, Artisan Bread
Meatball Calzones made with Artisan dough and convenience meatballs, Salad, Carrots- Mac and Cheese Bake (making 2 8×8 pans,freezing 1) , habachi zucchini and onions, Cornbread
- Cranberry Oatmeal Blender Pancakes (doubling, freezing extra) turkey bacon, homemade syrup
Lunch box Snacks/Treats:
Freezer whole wheat chewy chocolate chip cookies
- Healthy Blueberry Cake
- Mini convenience cinnamon rolls for Vday school b’fast
It looks like a whole lot of home cooking this week, but it’s not. The Artisan dough in a shoebox makes so many items easily. I’ll have two boxes in my fridge for the extra cinnamon rolls I’m sending to school. Check out my Artisan Dough 101 post for an intro to this wonderful dough I mix in a shoebox and see the variety of items I’m making. Three of my casseroles are “no cook” before I bake them, so they prep easily.
What are you doubling and freezing this week?