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so much food - no idea what to do with it all

December 18th, 2008 at 06:45 am

First of all a big congratulations to gamecock (and BB) on buying a house Smile

My parents just left to go on a three week holiday and gave me all their fresh fruit and vegetables. They left three days earlier than were planning (it's a driving holiday) so they had more food than they thought they would.
To top it off, I also had a fair bit of fruit and veg in our fridge as well.

My parents gave us:
1 and 1/2 eggplants
1kg green beans
2 kg sweet potato
4 kg carrots (what the?!)
2 kg apples
2 lettuce
3 cucumbers
1kg zucchini
2 large broccoli
500g red onion
1kg potato
1/4 watermelon
1/4 pawpaw
8 corn heads
4 tomatoes
3 bunches bok choi
500g yellow squash


So yesterday I looked up on the internet the best way to freeze vegetables, all of which said to blanch most of them and then freeze in portions. So I spent about three hours yesterday chopping up a mix of yellow squash, broccoli, carrot, beans and then blanching them, and packing them in freezer bags in portions so that I can use them for stirfry, bakes, curries or just vegetables sides. I also blanched the corn and cut it off the cob and packed that in small portions, and also the sweet potato in portions too. I also put a few packs of green beans and brocoli by itself for sides of veges.
WHEW!
Then I stewed the apples and made an apple pie, and made a vegetable soup for dinner (and froze half of that).

I felt very domesticated yesterday. Not that it's a bad thing! But I just don't normally do that Smile I just could not let all that food go to waste.

So we will not need to go to the market this week, which is just as well as it tends to get a bit touristy over the christmas holidays - too many people. I am thinking of using some of the sweet potato and the onions for that sweet potato and feta tart I made awhile ago, and that will be what I make for our christmas lunch/dinner at BF's grandparents place (there's not a great deal of vegetarian choices there).

I still have a lot of carrots, lettuce and cucmber left. BF is going away as well (until christmas! Frown i will be so lonely), so I think I am going to attempt to have lots of salads this week for my dinners.



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4 Responses to “so much food - no idea what to do with it all”

  1. campfrugal Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 12:52 pm 1229604723
    1229604723

    That is so cool and good job on your domestication.

  2. Broken Arrow Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 01:09 pm 1229605756
    1229605756

    Oooh! Ooh! Send it to me! Send it to me!

  3. ceejay74 Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 03:25 pm 1229613916
    1229613916

    Wow, score! Good job on freezing it so you don't lose any of it. We get a big box of local veg every week in the spring, summer and fall, and we are still perfecting the art of not wasting any. We're getting better and better though...

  4. whitestripe Says:
    December 21st, 2008 at 05:35 am 1229837757
    1229837757

    lol BA: send the food or the link?

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