What foods can/can't you freeze?

skiTTish

Send em this way !!
'shrooms cooked with a lil bit of garlic and served on toast ..or even better in a bacon butty MMmmmmmmmmmm

Stephen_Leak

Mushroom curry? Mushroom soup? I can post recipes for either, if you want.

skintchick

Ooh, mushroom soup would be great! Please do post the recipe.

miss_phish

If you're not that keen on them whizz in blender & keep in freezer to add to your next sauce/stew/soup/whatever. Will disappear but still give you their goodness

Stephen_Leak

skintchick wrote: »

Ooh, mushroom soup would be great! Please do post the recipe.

We are here to serve. Just a few simple wholesome ingredients, and it actually tastes of mushrooms.

MUSHROOM SOUP

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

125g of closed cup mushrooms
½ a potato
½ an onion
1 tablespoon of oil
350ml of milk
½ a teaspoon of dried parsley
½ a teaspoon of dried thyme
Ground pepper to taste

METHOD

Wipe the mushrooms clean. Cut the ends off the stalks. Peel the potato, cut it in half and cut any nasty bits and eyes out of one half, and save the other half. Peel the onion, cut it in half, chop one half into tiny pieces and save the other half.

Put the oil into a saucepan on a medium heat. Fry the onion for about 2 minutes until it is transparent. Stir frequently to stop it sticking.

Add the potato and mushrooms, and cook, stirring all the time, for another 2 minutes. Add the milk and herbs.

Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat until it is just boiling (simmering). Put the lid on the saucepan and continue to cook for 20 minutes.

If you have a food processor, put the soup in it and blend it to the desired consistency. If you have a hand blender, put it in the soup and blend it to the desired consistency. If you don’t have a food processor or hand blender, use a potato masher, press the soup through a sieve with the back of a spoon, or leave it lumpy.

Season with the pepper.

Continue to cook for another couple of minutes.

ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

You can use button mushrooms instead of closed cup mushrooms, but they are more expensive, Don't use open cup mushrooms, as the brown undersides will discolour the soup.

Use oregano instead of thyme.

Remove some of the mushrooms before blending, finely chop them and put them back in afterwards.

MP14

Hi all.

I am not too good in the kitchen but desperately need to save some money. Can I freeze mince that is made using bisto gravy granules. Also, I already have a couple of jars or bolognese sauce in the cupboard, can bolognese made with sauce out of a jar be frozen?

Thank you.

Butterfly_Brain

yes to both just make sure you give them a thorough stir during reheating and make sure it is piping hot all the way through

MP14

Thank you. I am browning the mince now.:A

Pink.

Hi MP14,

There's an earlier thread with advice on what can and can't be frozen so I've added your thread to it to keep the suggestions together.

This thread may help too:

Freezing - Tips and Quick Questions thread

Pink

ALIBOBSY

Got a pack of stir fry veg today (on offer) but don't think we will use the whole bag (more like half). It was so cheap considered just chucking the other half, but hate waste.
Will it freeze?
The veg is uncooked, and appears to be various cabbages, carrots and bean sprouts.

ali x