Freezer Cooking day-Part 2

Back in June we had our very first cooking day and it was quite successful. Unfortunately, due to our summer schedules Amy and I haven't been able to do another one until now. So I am headed off to her house today to have another one.

So on today's menu we will be making...
-White Bean Chicken Chili
-Taco Soup
-Pumpkin Pancakes
-Apple Chicken Burgers w/rolls(rolls are finished)
-Salisbury Steak
-Pumpkin Granola
-Egg McMuffins
-BBQ Pulled Pork w/homemade rolls(these are actually already done)
-Sweet and Sour Kielbasa and rice
-Mexican Ravioli

On Amy's list...
-Apple Sauce(canned, done night before)
-Apple Pie filling(canned, done night before)
-Chicken Enchiladas
-Honey Pork Chops
-Cranberry Mango Chicken
-Muffins...I can't remember which kind
-Wild Rice Soup
-Four Cheese Minestrone
-3 Cheese Baked Spaghetti(I think)

All of my prep work is done except for grating the onion and apple for the burgers. Everything is measured and set to go. We found last time that we needed to do some more prep work first, now it doesn't seem so daunting of a task. It took us about 8 hrs last time so we will see how long it takes us doing it this way. Never the less I'm sure we will have fun and our freezers will be fully stocked.

We might also be canning our soup, if we can get our hands on a pressure canner.

Freezer Cooking Day-June 2010

This past saturday, my friend Amy from A Foodie Fairytale, came over and we had our very first freezer cooking day. It is something we have been wanting to do for a while and we finally got a chance to do it! We had a total of 32+ meals, we had a wonderful mostly kid free time! I am also glad it decided to rain and not be too hot and humid. It worked out perfectly and we can't wait to do it again!

So within the next few weeks I will be sharing with you the recipes I made and I believe Amy will be sharing hers, I will make sure to link up to them when she does so you can see all the goodies we made and how to make them!

We started with all these ingredients...the meat is not shown as it was all in the fridge/cooler.

We started at 930 and ended at about 430ish. It wasn't bad all for a days work! We were both tired to say the least and we learned exactly what not to make on days like this that take a little more time. All recipes were doubled and some recipes that were found in Amy's freezer meal cookbooks gave us 3 meals each.

Here is what we made:
-chocolate chip cinnamon rolls
-Breakfast burritos
-Choc. chip zucchini muffins
-blueberry scones...and they had an accident by setting my smoke alarm off. But I was able to save most of them and they tasted delcious!
-Pumpkin French Toast Sticks(which the boys have loved)
-Blueberry Banana Pancakes

Dinners:
-Sloppy Joes with homemade rolls
-Cran-Mango Chicken
-Tequila Lime Chicken
-Denise's Beans
-Spanish Rice
-Sausage, onion, pepper calzones
-Veggie Lasagna
-Chedder Jack Burgers
-Pineapple chicken Fajitas
-3 cheese baked spaghetti

All of our finished meals!

and one VERY full freezer!

and the aftermath...I'm still working on the dishes and I have a dishwasher. Just been busy and I was too pooped to do them saturday night. 

*at least the ones on the right ARE clean and we did wash dishes as we went...but all the baking came at the end, which is something we will alter for next time! 

and for lunch we had strawberry margaritas..and potato pizza!

and last but not least, I have to give credit also to my husband K! He helped measure out all the dry ingredients the night before which helped this go a lot smoother!