pasta sauce recipes

LJM

i usually cook a big piece of beef roast it then portion it up and refreeze or bulk cook curries stews/casserole etc and refreeze

meritaten

three days max in fridge. but why dont you slice some, cube some and freeze it? the sliced can be defrosted for sandwiches or salads and the cubed can be used with curry sauce or red wine sauce? if i plan to freeze some of the joint I do it as soon as possible after using what i need. not that you CANT freeze after the three days but i think its best to freeze ASAP.

Butterfliesarepretty

Just made a puff pastry flan with tomatoes ham and mozzarella cheese, but thought it smelt when cooking in oven, checked date on wrapper 31/3/10, its pure white and melting ok.

I dont want to waste food!

Its my dinner!

greenbee

I wouldn't worry - mozzarella is usually OK to eat as it gets riper - it just has a bit more flavour! As long as there are no signs of mould it should be fine. I've eaten it MUCH older and riper than that and lived to tell the tale...

Butterfliesarepretty

greenbee wrote: »

I wouldn't worry - mozzarella is usually OK to eat as it gets riper - it just has a bit more flavour! As long as there are no signs of mould it should be fine. I've eaten it MUCH older and riper than that and lived to tell the tale...

just eaten it and there was no smell and it was delicious too.:rotfl:

greenbee

Butterfliesarepretty wrote: »

just eaten it and there was no smell and it was delicious too.:rotfl:

Just make sure you check in occasionally and let us know you've survived the experience

zippychick

Hi Butterfiles:D

Now you have survived your cheese escapade, I've merged your thread into the food safety one

Zip

BitterAndTwisted

Vader123 wrote: »

How long will it keep? My mam is oldschool and says it will keep for 7 days from the fridge until it goes "green" and smells. My dad said "don't listen to her, more than 48 hours is risking it".

Everybody should listen to their Mam! Back in the days before my family had a fridge cooked meat would be kept in the pantry and it was still good to eat after a week if kept nice and cool. Cooked meats take much longer to spoil than fresh. Think about how far ahead the "use by" date is on cooked meats bought in the supermarket: at least a week and that's not counting how long ago it was cooked, packaged, shipped to the supermarket warehouse, delivered to the branch and then sitting in the chiller cabinet before you buy it.

Raksha

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Everybody should listen to their Mam! Back in the days before my family had a fridge cooked meat would be kept in the pantry and it was still good to eat after a week if kept nice and cool. Cooked meats take much longer to spoil than fresh. Think about how far ahead the "use by" date is on cooked meats bought in the supermarket: at least a week and that's not counting how long ago it was cooked, packaged, shipped to the supermarket warehouse, delivered to the branch and then sitting in the chiller cabinet before you buy it.

But the cooking and processing in a commercial outfit is very different to the domestic kitchen - they have blast chillers to bring the temps down quickly and the joints will be shrink/vacuum wrapped or sealed with an inert gas to prevent bacteria growth. A commercially cooked meat is a very different thing to the joint cooked at home.

Having said that, I would use 'common sense' and it's been stored correctly and looks and smells fine, then I'd still eat it 3 days plus....

Butterfliesarepretty

greenbee wrote: »

Just make sure you check in occasionally and let us know you've survived the experience

yes i have survived ok, two pieces left yet to eat think I will save them for tomorrows lunch.