Broth isn't just for soup-it can be the base of a sauce, or added to other meat or grain dishes for extra moisture, cook veggies in broth, etc. We freeze broth (and other things) in these molds and then store them in freezer bags. They are sturdy and easy to clean by popping them inside out. They come in different sizes, we have 1/3 cup size and 1/2 cup size. I highly recommend investing in some silicone "ice cube" molds. I’m not sure what I plan to do with them…heat and serve with dinner? Toast and make egg sandwiches for breakfast? These bread cubes are destined for a French toast casserole, I think.Īnd lastly, this is a bag of butternut squash rolls. I could use these banana slices in smoothies, or maybe I will make the strawberry-banana “ice cream” I posted about some years ago. ![]() But this is perfect because pineapple is a great addition to a peach smoothie.Īnd we know I’m gonna be making more of those. This is a bag of pineapple chunks, and I seriously had no idea it was in there. Well, of course, I will continue to work on my bag of peaches.Īnd I have another batch of freezer goodies (baddies?) that are up this week. But I thawed the bag with just a bit of cheese in it, and I’ll add it to my scrambled eggs this morning. ![]() I opted to leave the sealed bag of mozzarella in the freezer for some future use. Here’s my method for making chicken broth that tastes really good. Most broth-centric recipes are for cold weather! I’m probably not going to make a big dent in my broth stash until the seasons change, though. Chicken broth is in a usable form, and I know that I will always use it up over time. Regardless, now my bones have been transformed into chicken broth, which was my end goal. When I was pouring the broth into the containers last night, I noticed a growing puddle underneath one. (July is not the time of year to have a pot of simmering liquid on your stove all day. I started it out on the stovetop so that I could brown an onion and the chicken bits.Īnd then I transferred it all to the slow-cooker, which I parked out in my carport. I had three rotisserie chicken carcasses to use and I opted to pull out my slow-cooker for the broth-making process. Good to know for the future! Chicken Bones Thigh meat generally takes longer to cook, so I didn’t want to mix the two on a single skewer.Īnd I’m happy to report that chicken thighs work just fine in this recipe in fact, I might actually prefer them. I decided to forge ahead and use both types of chicken to make a batch of chipotle chicken kebabs I prepped the chicken as usual, and then I just made sure to thread the breast pieces on separate skewers from the thigh pieces. This is why we should always label things.īut, I don’t always do everything that I should. Once I thawed my two packages of chicken, I realized that one package was chicken tenders and one was boneless, skinless chicken thighs. So, I felt pretty good about the frugality of this smoothie! □Īlso please notice: this is wearing #2 of the Target clearance dress.Īfter my first one, I made several more peach/orange/pineapple smoothies, and my peach bag is now down to 1 pound, 12 ounces. I also added some of the OJ concentrate from my previous challenge.Īlso in the smoothie: homemade yogurt, and some pineapple chunks that I’d frozen from an overly ripe Hungry Harvest pineapple. I made a smoothie with some of my peaches (after I banged the bag on the floor a few times to loosen the peaches, which had somehow gathered together into one large lump.) Here’s a YouTube video I made about how I freeze peaches, in case you wanna see me talk about it! These are peaches I’d sliced and frozen from those boxes of bruised peaches I buy from my local produce stand, so they were pretty inexpensively obtained. Let’s see how I did with the stuff I pulled out last week. ![]() ![]() And I give myself permission to buy other ingredients as necessary, to help me use up what’s in my freezer. Since I don’t like my freezer challenges to be miserable or overwhelming, I do them by pulling out just a few things to use up each week. Chest freezers are good for storing things on a long-term basis, but long-term does not equal forever. I’m eating down odds and ends and I’m also trying to eat up things that have been in there for a while. That’s a good strategy, but unless you actually eat those things, the freezer just ends up being a pit stop on the way to the trash can. In case you’re just joining us: I’m not necessarily trying to empty my chest freezer entirely by doing this challenge.īut I am trying to use up odds and ends…those things you throw in the freezer so you don’t let them go bad.
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