Meals Made Ahead: Preparing pasta for freezing

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Preparing pasta for freezing

When a dish will be frozen and then heated again in the oven, you don't want your pasta to be overcooked and mushy by the time it's ready to eat.

When you first cook the pasta, boil it for about half the time recommended on the box, or about 7 minutes or so. Then drain the pasta and run it under cold water. This will stop the cooking process.

Don't worry! The pasta will absorb some of the moisture from the dish and finish cooking when you reheat it.

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About this blog:

We are a group of moms who get together about once a month or so to cook Meals Made Ahead.

Meals Made Ahead are great because it's nice to always have something in the freezer for those nights that are busy, those nights when you can't think of anything to make, those nights when you have nothing to cook with because you didn't feel like dragging two screaming kids through the grocery store, those nights when you just don't feel like cooking.

Sure, we could do this on our own. But it's much more fun to cook with friends (and share the clean up!)

The secret ingredient

"If a woman could see the sparks of light going forth from her fingertips when she is cooking, and the substance of light that goes into the food she handles, she would be amazed to see how much of herself she charges into the meals that she prepares for her family and friends. It is one of the most important and least understood activities of life, that the radiation and feeling that go into the preparation of food affect everyone who partakes of it. And this activity should be unhurried, peaceful, and happy because the substance of the lifestream performing the service flows into that food and is eaten, and actually becomes part of the energy of the receiver. It would be better that an individual did not eat at all than to eat food that has been prepared under a feeling of anger, apathy, resentment, depression, or any outward pressure."
~Maha Chohan, Electrons