So easy to tell this is a Red Sky at night.
“What on earth is that Dad”
For some bizarre reason I have started freezing left over food. Anything which cuts down the need to shop is a good thing in our book. Any trip beyond the garden gate will send Son into anxiety meltdown and I have to admit to being uncomfortable with the idea. So stuff gets bagged up and frozen.
“Remind me again, what are you looking for.”
I was searching for some frozen cheese (grated).
“Well that’s not cheese.”
I’m not entirely sure what that freezer bag contained.
“Why didn’t you label the bags.”
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. But this is his Dad. I’ve not got a good track record in doing things sensibly. Son knows this. He has always known this. When he was about 4 we had to have our photos taken for a season ticket at the local fun park. I had just done something embarrassing – AGAIN. Son just gave me one of those looks and turned to the person taking the photo and said
“This is my Dad. He is a muppet.”
Things haven’t changed.
Convinced I had found the frozen grated cheese, I went to cook lunch.
“Is that my favourite cheese?”
Yes it was. Well it was for a few glorious minutes. Cooking and tasting unfortunately disproved the fact. So today I have learnt two important facts
- Labelling freezer bags is a great idea AND
- Frozen grated cheese looks very like potato rosti.
Oops! A sharpie will solve that problem. Just dont put it behind your ear or in your pocket uncapped. Yeah, experience talking… I’m not the brightest crayon either.🤷🏼♀️💌
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I dread to think what’s in the bottom of the freezer. x
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Frozen cheese can be melted from a block, but shredded? Idk. Here’s an article about it: https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/6699-yes-you-can-freeze-cheese
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Aww good on you 🙂
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Thank you x
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Thank you. I follow mum and shred it first.
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Thank you for the laugh, I really needed it. Having owned a restaurant I don’t know how to not cook for a army, so labels are a necessity. 🤣🤣🤣
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Do you miss the restaurant
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A little frosting can make things look different or spruce up something that would otherwise be boring.
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It so can
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Thanks for keeping me smiling and laughing! 🙂 And to know that I am not the only one that does things like this!!
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It’s not just me then.
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Nope, its not! 🙂 Have you ever made Chicken Curry without putting the chicken in? Run a roll of paper towels through the wash machine?
Does that help you feel better? ☺
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I am like that too. I think I will remember what is what but…. I don’t.
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I’m hopeless at it.
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He, he.
Well, if it makes you feel better, I don’t usually label the foods in the refrigerator either. I go by senses, like touch and smell and I know it’s the food. I mean I can see, but thinking of that label and the writing with the ink going all over the places makes me not do it.
Nice post, take care! 🙂
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That makes me feel so much better. So it’s not just me.
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I labelled mine and thought, ‘Why am I labelling this? I can tell it’s ground beef,’ but when I pulled one out from who-knows-when that was frosty and couldn’t tell it apart from the frozen chicken!
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Yes that was me this morning. What the lump defrosts as determines tonight’s meal. x
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i suck at remembering to label..and it certainly isn’t my moms fault- she was a stickler about that and many other organization things. But using an actual “freezer” marker works best..sharpies are ok but tend to smear. good luck with the cheese…maybe re grate it?
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Thank you. I’ve just found that marker pens rub off within hours.
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Oops!
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🙏
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Love the photo of the red sky at night! ☺
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Thank you.
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It may come as no great surprise to you but … I have done the same with freezer items too. Once I just decided to cook what ever it was I pulled out. I tried it for a week .. it wasn’t a huge success …
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No potato rosti doesn’t really go well as a cottage pie topping. x
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I can imagine.
I took out some very dubious chicken once. We never did work out what it was, even when cooked. I threw it out – not worth the risk.
I apologise if I don’t reply to your responses to my comments. You aren’t in my spam and I have notification that you have liked a comment but not that you have replied. Of I check your post again I can see your reply but not via notifications. Frustrating but I have tried updating setting etc to no avail.
Ah well. Such is word press life.
Hope you are good today. x
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Lol… I do this all the time anyway… THEn evry so often I have to clear it all out in order to get the shopping in …
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I’m now in the sitting on the freezer lid to squash it all down.
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Ha ha ha… We have a fancy side by side. One came wi the house and we insured it and it broke the next month so we got another off the insurance. One of the best moves we ever made that one. BUT see the last one in our last house? I used to defy the laws of volume on that one And there wasn’t a drawer cover left either.
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Don’t you enjoy getting those wins every so often.
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Yeah. it was 1200 quid for 42 pounds all told in insurance. Obvi , in the spirit of quitting while we were ahead, we cancelled that the minute it arrived…
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Always quit when your ahead.
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I laughed. And now I really fancy some potato rosti…
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I do but I’ve used it up on top of a cottage pie. I’m now potato less.
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Hahahahahaha! He called you a Muppet! For real??? Lol
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You clearly have not taught him respect 🙂 – there is nothing wrong with freezing left over food, especially with the labelling idea.
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He’s getting taller than me. Respect is shattered at that stage.
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Yes, always good to label. But ahh sometimes just do not think about it. Food at least made it to the freezer, right? Oh, is that what it looks like after being freezer.😊
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It all looks the same after a couple of days.
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I’ve been doing the same thing. Well, freezing food that is. Any leftovers go to the freezer for the next week as we seem to be on menu rotation so I know I will get to it again. I put mine in containers though and they are things like meatballs – pretty discernable so that cuts down on the guessing 🙂
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See your way more organised than me. x
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It was a fun read 😀. Good to know we are not alone in our foibles and blunders. Love to your family from southern-most tip of India. A small state called kerala, God’s own country.
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I’ve just look that up. The palm beaches look stunning.
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Whenever I see a picture of these sorts of sunsets and sunrises. I always think of Legolas saying “The red sun rises, blood has been spilt this night”.
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Must either read or watch that again. Now that’s a decision.
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Coincidence: I just cleaned out and organised the freezer today. The latest frozen leftovers are in freezer bags with labels. The earlier stiff in Tupperware….let’s just say there’s going to be a lot of “Mystery dinners” in our future.
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Now you can do mine… I must do it. Dread to think what’s in the bottom. x
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Beautiful sky.
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Thank you
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😄Another lesson learned😄
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It so is. Sadly I bet I don’t learn. x
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I have the same problem … it looks quite identifiable when you put it in the freezer, but 6 months later, covered in ice … not so much. If I can’t identify it, then in the rubbish it goes, and it took up valuable freezer space for six months all for naught. Sigh. Happens a lot here. xx
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I tend to through it in the frying pan and hope it’s not ice cream
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I am a practitioner of labelling before freezing (including the date). My husband wasn’t. We now have much less freezer-burned food.
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I should follow your lead.
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The date keeps you from eating year-old meat that got pushed to the back (learned from experience.)
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I guess there is some of that at the bottom.
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