Freezing dinners (1 Viewer)

[Diddles]

Does anyone have any recipes for veggies dinners you can freeze? I'd like to make all my food for the week on Sundays from now on.

ty

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

you can freeze veggie lasagne no bother - i used to do it when i used to bother making it. veggie pizzas too, waffles, hash browns.

 

[Diddles]

you can freeze veggie lasagne no bother - i used to do it when i used to bother making it. veggie pizzas too, waffles, hash browns.

did you cook it and then freeze it?

 

[dudley]

ice cream

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

did you cook it and then freeze it?

the laz - yes (cooked and frozen after it had cooled down), everything else - no

 

[Space]

You can pretty much freeze anything as long as you leave it cool down for a few hours first.

 

[HMD]

Does anyone have any recipes for veggies dinners you can freeze? I'd like to make all my food for the week on Sundays from now on.

ty

what are you talking about? i make you dinner every day, is there something wrong with my cooking?

 

[Diddles]

what are you talking about? i make you dinner every day, is there something wrong with my cooking?

If you didn't have to cook the dinner you could do other stuff like put up shelves and lift heavy things. I'm just trying to free up some time for you to do man work.

 

[jane]

Veggie chili is great. You can make it in huge batches on a weekend, and then freeze it. We freeze it in different size dishes because sometimes we use it to make tacos, which requires less chili. I also freeze risottos. Moussaka also freezes well, and because a good moussaka takes hours and hours to make, you do a huge one when you have the time, and then you're sorted.

I also made these really excellent veggie bean burgers a couple of times recently. I don't know how well the mix freezes, but it keeps for a good few days in the fridge. We had them in the beginning of the week, and ate the leftovers last night, and they were fine. There's no dairy or anything that could really go 'off' in it, although beans do go rotten eventually.

The recipe seems weird, and I was hesitant to make anything that called for soy sauce and ketchup to be in the same dish, but they're gorgeous. Plus, if you soak your own beans, the whole recipe will cost around 50cents to make and it makes LOADS.

Chili Burgers:

1 cup chopped onions
4 garlic cloves, minced
2 tsp olive oil
1/2 cup grated carrots
1 1/2 tsp chili powder
1 tsp ground cumin
3 cups (2 tins, drained) kidney beans
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons ketchup (or 1 tablespoon tomato paste/puree)
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 1/2 cups oats

Fry the onions and garlic for about 5 minutes, until soft. Add carrots, chili powder, cumin, cook for a few minutes. Set aside. Mash the beans with a masher until really mashed up, add soy sauce, mustard, ketchup, and onion/garlic/carrot mixture. Mix in oats, mix up well. Make burger patties out of it, cook on medium-low heat for about 5 minutes each side, or until browned. You can also bake the burgers, but I haven't tried that method.

They're actually quite quick to make, and when we made the leftovers last night, with salad and oven chips, the whole process took about 15 minutes.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I cooked enough dinner to feed all of the starving people in the world instead of just enough for today and tomorrow. It's roast vegetables with chicken and broccoli mixed up with pasta and pesto. Is that the kinda thing you could freeze? It doesn't really look suitable for it but maybe its ok...

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I cooked enough dinner to feed all of the starving people in the world instead of just enough for today and tomorrow. It's roast vegetables with chicken and broccoli mixed up with pasta and pesto. Is that the kinda thing you could freeze? It doesn't really look suitable for it but maybe its ok...

It wouldn't be ideal for freezing. Roast stuff like the veg and chicken never truly recovers. You can stir fry it on the back end though.
I almost never eat pasta though, so can't really comment.

If it's in its own liquid, that's another story.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I'll just overeat for a day or two

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Tupperware can be a good friend

 

[Unknown Convict]

I'll just overeat for a day or two

or have a dinner party - trade your excess for cheap wine.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I ate it all