The first thing I do is cook the meat. Last night I cooked the chickens and made the stock. Usually I would cook the mince too but since the Kangaroo meat shop was shut when I got there, I had to wait till the morning to buy it.
I cook 4 kg at a time and that is enough meat for about 3 lots of 2 different meals. This lot of meat is doing my spaghetti sauce and the cheeseburger soup.
Once the meat is cooked, I make the spaghetti sauce.
This sauce will do three meals.
Here it is in the containers ready for the freezer.
While the sauce was cooking, I cut up all the vegetables for the pumpkin soup. I forgot to photograph the soup prep.
After the pumpkin soup I did the cheeseburger soup.
Here is Christopher helping me cut up vegetables for the cheeseburger soup. After the soup I did the chicken schnitzels.
Here is the cheeseburger soup we had for tea tonight.
To make the chicken schnitzels, I put the fillets in flour, egg and milk and breadcrumbs.
I then wrap them in alfoil lined with baking paper.
Here are all the meals ready for the freezer. I have three spaghetti sauces, three serves of chicken schnitzels, three serves of pumpkin soup and two serves of cheeseburger soup (it would have been three but we ate one for tea.
Tomorrow I will have a break since it is Sunday, On Monday I will make:
Hamburgers, chicken and corn soup, mushroom pasta, stew and meat loaf.
15 comments:
All looks scrumptdillyicious! All I need are the recipes...especially the cheeseburger soup! Cathy
Wow! Such great accomplishments the last two days! You've really inspired me!!!
It all looks so good! I'm so jealous that you're doing this!!!
You go girl!!
Thanks for sharing the pictures.
Do you have more than one freezer or does it all fit into one???
ok, send all that delicious food right over to me!!! :)
Cathy,
I linked to a cheeseburger soup recipe in my day one post. I changed it quite a bit though because I wanted a few more variety in the vegetables. I will post the recipe later.
JoAnn,
It has been a great time saver and money saver too. The two things motivate me to keep on doing it. I know that when we are in the midst of schooling during the day and running all the children around that I just don't want to cook in the afternoon.
Nancy,
It is something anyone can do. Yesterday when I checked comments, pmg had said I was way too organised. I laughed and thought, if only you could see my kitchen now. It was a huge mess.
We have two freezers at the moment but it could all fit into one. Last year I was using my mothers chest freezer. That made it hard to find things though. Earlier this year, I bought an upright one and we still have the chest freezer plugged in. The whole months main meals don't quite fit in the upright freezer but if we didn't have the chest freezer, I could get the extra meals in the freezer above the fridge.
Marilena,
You will just have to come on down under to share a meal with us.
Therese
I'll have to look up recipes for those soup meals. Thanks for sharing. I bet this makes your life so much more easy!
Kangaroo meat! Poor little guys, but I'm sure there are too many, and the herds need thinning out from time to time. We eat deer meat here, and when I was down in Florida, alligator.
Alexandra,
Alligator meat? wow. What does it taste like?
therese, apparently, like chicken it tastes. hmm.. no thanks. think i'll pass. kangaroo too, they are too cute:) but moose meat and deer meat i have had, and its pretty good let me tell you! better than steak in my opinion! not full of the garbage anti boitocs they put in meat these days. so yeah, i'll take moose and dear over beef any day, and that includes chicken too. i love wold meat. especially the sausages shirley had made one year!! mmmmmm goood! they were good!
Marilena,
The kangaroo mince isn't like chicken at all. It is a red meat and has very little fat. It is the only meat I know of that is 98% fat free. It probably is closer in taste to beef but has a leaner taste if you know what I mean.
Scrap that Marilena. I just realized you were saying the alligator tastes like Chicken.
I will try anything once so maybe one day I will try Alligator.
What a great idea! I'm so impressed with your hard work.
One of the things I like to make and freeze is burritos. I've found adding some lentils to the pinto beans makes them taste really rich. That was a happy accident when a batch of beans I made was too watery. I threw in some lentils because they cook fast and we loved how it tasted.
For meat I add whatever leftovers we have in the fridge. Each burrito is wrapped individually (hubby and I make an assembly line) and I usually make about 30 or 40 at a time.
A couple minutes in the microwave, a bit of salsa and cheese on top and lunch or dinner is served...
Kangaroo???????? What a hard thing for this American to wrap her mind around:)
Otherwise all looks very good. I have tried to do this a couple of times, but it is never successful for the two of us.
I always enjoy reading your blog because I learn something new often. Like that people eat kangaroo in Australia. I had NEVER heard that before. Is kangaroo meat something you eat often, like many American's love to eat beef, or is it more of a special treat?
How do you prepare it?
Melissa,
The meat is similar to beef. It is more lean though and probably has a stronger flavour.
Many people don't like it and it is much cheaper to buy than beef so it isn't really a treat.
I use mainly mince meat (ground beef) and fry it in my electric frying pan. The stew I make is made with kangaroo fillets and I bake that in the oven with vegetables in Tomato soup mixed with french onion soup.
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