Meals Made Ahead: IL January 2011 Cooking Day

Thursday, January 27, 2011

IL January 2011 Cooking Day

We had a fabulous cooking day yesterday!

We made (per family) 1 Busy Day Meatloaf, 26 Meatballs, 19 Pancakes (about half with blueberries), and 9 Parmesan Chicken Breasts. At a cost of $20.47.

Making Meatballs

Meatball soldiers all lined up

Parmesan Chicken Breasts ready for flash freezing

Stirring up meatloaf

The pancakes took the longest to make since we were only working with one griddle (and because the recipe made almost double what I though it would!). In fact, everything else was done a good half hour before the pancakes were finished. But that was OK, because it left time for the chicken and meatballs to get a head start on flash freezing.

It was a good month to flash freeze, too! (Sorry, I'm just so excited about this!) I got a new, bigger freezer last week. And since the temp here in Northern Illinois is below freezing, I just unplugged the old freezer, but didn't move anything out of it yet (it's in my garage). Just look at all that real estate for trays of chicken and meatballs!

We have decided on our next cooking day and menu which will be posted soon so keep watching!

1 comment:

TristyJanuary 28, 2011 at 8:08 AM
Ohhhhh...so jealous of the new freezer!
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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