What's in your freezer?

[cjsmith]

Serious question.

If I am ever going to cook, I'm going to cook for one, which is pessimal from a purchasing and storage point of view. My freezer is perennially full.

Friends ask "Full of WHAT?" They have a point. Food! But it's not that simple.

What have I got in there? Seven servings of bean soup (and that's after I've eaten three), one serving of lentil soup, some meatballs, two servings of beef stew, four servings of meatloaf, one ancient serving of Dijon chicken I should really pitch, a couple of pounds of lean ground turkey, two frozen chicken breasts, a big honkin' pile of chopped onion, some chopped bell peppers, a bowl of walnuts, lots of frozen veggies of the Bird's Eye sort of genre, a handful of frozen taquitos, several ice packs, and a tiny Godiva chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream container I'd forgotten about.

I had to look in there to write that paragraph, and truth to tell, I'm surprised by some of it. I didn't remember the meatloaf, the Dijon chicken, or the ice cream. Some of these things were seriously buried, of course.

What would I like to put in there? Multiple kinds of flour. The half a lemon I didn't squeeze into a recipe or the half a can of tomato paste I didn't use. Most importantly, a large variety of finished products, so that I have a big choice of what to pull out of there.

So there's my question. What's in your freezer?

More later.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_opus_/]

I live in effing California. There's no excuse for me not to grow something yummy. *sigh*

bearly_here grows most of our stuff in window boxes, so when winter hits, it comes indoors. We still have cherry tomatoes on the vine, though the basil died in December. We've got enough fresh sage to save $2.00 on a package when we make garlic chicken.

On the other hand, we can't keep rosemary growing for love or money.

What I can't figure out is how those tomatoes are even growing. The plants are supposed to have roots that go several feet in the ground, yet they're happily growing in 6" of soil in a window box. The neat part is that it stunts their growth; they're only about 2' tall, and easily supported by sticks.

She says to just water them every other day, don't get the soil too soggy or bone dry. Apparently, it works. Just not for the rosemary.

[moriamerri.livejournal.com]

Scuze me for butting in, but I am floored that you can't grow rosemary. It has been one of the most carefree plants for me, always, and I have a HUGE amount -- like small bushes or a a small hedge. I want to know HOW it can be that you can't grow it -- but, um, of course you don't know. But this will nag at me! This is a real stumper!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Well, it does grow wild in our climate. _opus_ lives in the frozen wasteland of New Hampshire.

(Now I'm grinning, thinking how he'll respond to the phrase "frozen wasteland".)

[moriamerri.livejournal.com]

ooohhhhh..... yeah, I've never grown anything in NJ or equivalent..... still, what with bringing the plants indoors for the winter??.... which seems to work for tomoatoes... but not for the reosemary.