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    Freezer Meals: 50 Essential Recipes for Today's Busy Cook
    Freezer Meals: 50 Essential Recipes for Today's Busy Cook
    Freezer Meals: 50 Essential Recipes for Today's Busy Cook
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    Freezer Meals: 50 Essential Recipes for Today's Busy Cook

    By Adams Media

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    Everything® cookbooks are a popular choice for home cooks looking for fresh, original recipes that only taste you’ve spent all day in the kitchen. But now we’ve collected fifty of our most delicious, freezer-ready recipes. Here’s all you need to get started making tasty, satisfying recipes from Grilled Honey Mustard Chicken to Hot Fudge Sundae Pie.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440559174
    Freezer Meals: 50 Essential Recipes for Today's Busy Cook
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    Adams Media

    At Adams Media, we don’t just publish books—we craft experiences that matter to you. Whether you’re diving deep into spirituality, whipping up delights in the kitchen, or planning your personal finances, our diverse range of lifestyle books, decks, journals, and more is designed to feed your curiosity. The Adams team strives to publish content that celebrates readers where they are—and where they’re going.

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      We eat gluten free, dairy free, etc and were still able to find a handful of recipes to try.
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      love it, simple recipes <3 <3 <3
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    Freezer Meals - Adams Media

    Freezer Methods

    Properly freezing your meals is a major factor in whether a frozen meal tastes fantastic, or whether it comes out freezer burned. Each recipe in this cookbook has a suggested method of freezing. When you are ready to package your meal for the freezer, remove as much air as possible and provide sufficient protection from the freezer. This will guard your food from freezer burn.

    Freezer Bag Method

    Use either gallon- or quart-sized freezer bags to freeze meals. This method is often used with meals that contain a marinade, soup, gravy, or sauce. Wait until the food has cooled before adding it to the bag since putting hot food into a freezer bag can compromise the strength of the bag. In addition, putting hot food directly in the freezer raises the temperature of your freezer and makes it work too hard. Before sealing the bag, remove as much air as possible.

    Casserole Method

    This method of freezing is perfect for when you make meals in a casserole dish but do not want to tie up your dish in the freezer. The idea is to flash freeze the casserole in the shape of the pan so the pan doesn’t need to stay in the freezer. Before adding food, line your casserole dish with aluminum foil, and on top of the aluminum foil layer add a layer of plastic wrap. Leave enough foil and plastic wrap hanging over the edges of the dish to completely cover and seal the dish. Add your food to the dish, wrap it tightly with the wrap and foil, and place the entire dish in the freezer. After several hours, remove the dish from the freezer, take the frozen, wrapped casserole out of the dish, and place the casserole back in the freezer. Your casserole is now frozen in the shape of the dish. When you are ready to defrost or reheat the meal, unwrap the frozen casserole by removing the foil and plastic wrap. Place the frozen casserole in the same dish used when freezing, and defrost or cook.

    Plastic Wrap Method

    Use this method for food items that do not fit into a freezer bag. The plastic wrap method is the best choice when freezing a loaf of bread. To use this method, completely wrap your food item with plastic wrap so no part of the food is directly exposed to the freezer. Because plastic wrap does not always stick as well as it should, use tape to secure the seams.

    Tupperware Method

    Tupperware and other sturdy plastic containers come in all shapes and sizes and are a great choice for freezing a variety of foods. The drawback is these containers take up a lot of space in your freezer, and can stain when used for spaghetti sauce, chili, and other tomato-based foods. Make sure you leave space at the top and don’t fill these plastic containers to the rim. Because food expands as it freezes, if you don’t leave space, the top could pop off exposing your food to the freezer.

    Flash Freezing Method

    Flash freezing is a method used to freeze food items individually. Meatballs are a good example of when to use flash freezing. Once meatballs

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