BS: Cooking Spenser & Sophie Style

Subject: RE: BS: Cooking Spenser & Sophie Style
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Jan 12 - 08:47 PM

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~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Cooking Spenser & Sophie Style
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 08:08 PM

Before my March 2012 thyroid Dx and Sept. 2012 surgery to remove the most crippling part of the weight that had accumulated during the 50 years I awaited treatment, we used to set a limit on the quarterly meat sale of abt 30-40 pounds to bring in and process into the freezer-- cooking most of it except the beef.

Today I personally unloaded what Hardi would have had to bring in; before.... 60+ pounds of healthy, custom cut meats. And processed much more than before, myself, with a lot less burden on Hardi than in the past. It's good to be alive and so much more ABLE, TBTG!

And in time for easy, quick-meal Lenten feeding of the priest! I get to do Lent too thus year!

♥♡♥

Subject: RE: BS: Cooking Spenser & Sophie Style
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Sep 14 - 02:26 PM

The Fall 2014 meat sale was 100 pounds total.

. Two frozen turkeys-- cooked one and left one friz-- so no bonelss chix breat his time but when we et them I pre-roast them and wrap them in individual wax-paper portions and then chuck em into 1 or more 2-gal ziplocs for the freezer..
. Two 10-lb boxes of sweet sausage. Oven-boiled one covered in water, in a turkey roaster. This removes a lot of the salt and te water makes nice dogfood moistener, frozen in plastic tubs which are then de-tubbed and chucked into a 2-gal ziploc in the freezer. The cooked sausage was cut up and then friz in wax-papered layers in a use-or-toss plastic ox.
. Three ~3-lb boneless pork roasts, individually saran-wrapped and chucked into a 2-gal ziploc in the freezer.
. Boneless country pork ribs, friz 3-5 pcs in cheap sandwich ziplocs and chucked into a 2-gal ziploc in the freezer. (When it's pork steaks instead I pre-BBQ them in the oven.) Since these will be boiled before saucing, didn't precook-- time was short.
. Hamburg, 2 10-lb bags. Oe firz whole, one broken down to 1-lb baggies.
. Extra NY strip steaks (boneless, 3/4" thick) this time for MIL visit. This is my favorite new strategy for packing-for-freezer processing. Two raw steaks laid flat next to each other per cheap, flat, non-zipping plastic bag. Press out air between them, fold over pressing out air, and put resulting pkg open-edge down into a leftover Italian sausage box, BOOM.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Cooking Spenser & Sophie Style
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 11:02 AM

Last week may have been our last bulk purchase thru the quarterly meat sale. It's still a great DEAL.... avg $3.39/lb for the total haul, which included quite a bit of strip steak and boneless pork. (Thanks to the 49 cents/lb chicken leg quarters!)

But as we age, we're finding that it's also too much to deal with.

I'm hoping that by the time the next sale rolls around, we'll have some younger ones who want to learn this great way of saving money, to help git er done. I think I know where to open the negotiations....

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Cooking Spenser & Sophie Style
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 11:16 AM

I buy in quantities when a local grocery store has a good sale, then use the scale and the seal-a-meal to measure and package the sizes correct for dishes I cook. Not always single portions, but single-dish portions. I cut chuck roasts into 1# chunks, seal and label them, and when I want to make a batch of the taco/burrito/nacho mix it thaws just long enough to cut into easy semi-frozen cubes to go through the grinder attachment on my Kitchenaid stand mixer. I've ground my own meat for the last five years or more after all of the stories about E. coli in meats assembled from many places being ground together and sold to unsuspecting consumers.

The freezer should be filling with garden produce right now, but this year's garden took an excessive rainfall hit in the spring and has been restarted in hopes of getting a fall crop.

Subject: Hollowfox's Roasted FROZEN Chicken
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Sep 15 - 01:23 PM

Can't believe I have not posted this before!

I'll ask Hollowfox for details, but on short notice she can and does produce a sumptuous repast: she unwraps a whole, frozen chicken-- giblets still inside-- and roasts it. It comes out perfect!