As much as I love my freezer, things are getting a bit out of hand in that department.
I try and keep separate shelves for fruit & vegetables, bread products, dairy items, home-cooked meals and meat and fish, but the Christmas leftovers and redundant party food have messed up my filing system. Spiced red cabbage lies next to the bagels, smoked salmon mousse is wedged between a cheesecake and a joint of beef, and turkey curry is piled on top of pizza. There are goodies stuffed into every gap and crevice and of course I haven’t labelled anything. One of the boys went to get out the ice cream, and came back with chicken liver pate which I’d put into an empty tub of Neopolitan!
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It is so cold. There are icicles on the inside of the window and people are dropping like flies with the flu. I got it just before Christmas, which meant we had to cancel the big party. As I’d done most of the cooking in advance, it wasn’t too much of a problem as it was all in the freezer.
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I have a vegetable problem.
The Husband works with a fruit and veg supplier. Every week he brings home a huge box of delicious fresh produce – particularly welcome because it’s free! However, quite often the box has things in it that are nearing the end of their life – squash that are…well, a bit squashed, apples with a few bruises, soft tomatoes and browning broccoli. If I act quickly, most of the fruit and veg is great. I just cut off the bad bits and no-one is any the wiser. Shoving most of it into the fridge, where it keeps for longer.
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Christmas is always expensive. It feels even more expensive this year, thanks to the gloomy economic forecast. BBC Spotlight Devon have made a series of four short films to help fight the Christmas credit crunch, two of which I thought were particularly helpful for shopping and cooking at this time of the year.
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I must be mad. As if there wasn’t enough else to do, I seem to have invited the whole village to our Christmas party. I get a bit carried away with all that festive cheer and dream that I will miraculously transform into Nigella Lawson the minute the Christmas tree goes up. Somehow, I’ve got to find time to cater for the party, on top of getting ready for Christmas and keeping my tribe fed. The freezer is groaning under the weight of all this advanced cooking and if I see another mince pie, I swear I’m going to scream.
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