Month: February 2021

Fill Your Freezer: February 10

I made my kids happy today— I mixed up some pizza dough — now I can add pizza night to my menu plan! Happy kids, happy life.

This is my tried and true pizza dough recipe, and if I’m feeling really fancy we do stuffed crust! You can spilt the dough up after it rises from the freezer if you want to make stromboli, homemade hot pockets, or personal sized pizzas.

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Fill Your Freezer: February 8

Are you having fun filling your freezer? I’m enjoying mine fill up with ready to bake food and today I have another one for you!

I used my pizza dough recipe to make some homemade pigs and in a blanket. Let the dough rise, them roll out and cut into strips.

pizza dough pigs in a blanket

I used a package of smoked sausage instead of hot dogs here, but feel free to use what you have/what is on sale.

Wrap the dough strips around, and place seam side down on a parchment lined cookie sheet.

Place into the freezer for an hour to flash freeze and then place into a labeled gallon freezer bag (or freezer friendly container).

If baking right away I like to brush with a little oil (or an egg) to get a golden brown crust and a little sprinkle of garlic salt. Bake at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes or golden brown.

Happy Freezer Cooking!

Fill Your Freezer: February 5

Another day, another soup for Fill Your freezer February series!
I was inspired by the Toscano Soup we enjoy, but used up other vegetables we had in the fridge – carrots and a daikon radish (which has a potato type texture when cooked).

We had a soup and sandwich lunch and put the rest to the freezer!

tuscano soup

I’ll be back on Monday to share what I was able to tuck away in the freezer over the weekend. What is your favorite freezer friendly soup?

Fill Your Freezer: February 4

Today I made Pulled Pork to fill my freezer!

It takes a few minutes to prep, but then it cooks slow and low in the oven and ends up being perfect tender and multiple ways to use it!

Of course I doubled it! One for dinner and one to freezer. Doing things this way while trying to fill your freezer is a big time saver and sanity saver since there isn’t “extra” work – in the sense of having to set aside specific ingredients or extra time throughout our busy days.

le creuset pork rub
I LOVE my Le Creuset – it’s worth the investment!
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Fill Your Freezer February 2021

fill your freezer 2021

I started out with good intentions yesterday. It slowly went downhill- bad attitudes during homeschool, baby blow out, broken phone- it ended with me taking a bath, crying and going to bed. What does this have to do with freezer cooking you ask? Having a Monday-iest Monday would have been the perfect example on WHY having a well stocked freezer full of meals would have been helpful on a like yesterday!

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