My latest goal is to clean out the freezer of all processed items and replace them with sealed freezer bags of food that I make, which is much more nutritious and not full of high fructose corn syrup and msg. I can't believe all of the recipes you can find online. Last weekend I made my own graham crackers. I found a recipe for wheat thin crackers. Next weekend I'm going to make mini pie tarts to replace the toaster strudel and pop tarts. I will post the recipe at some point.
Today I made zucchini bread. Yum it's soooo good!!!! I made a full loaf and eight mini loaves. I sliced the mini loaves and placed them into freezer bags using my FoodSaver. My new favorite kitchen item. I've had it for about seven years, but forgot about it, until a few weeks ago when I rediscovered it. It's just a small version, but it's awesome for freezing food. Food stays fresher much longer than regular zip freezer bags. My little 5 year old starts kindergarten soon and I have to supply all of his snacks and I plan on packing his lunch. He loves zucchini bread, so now during the winter I can pull out one of the frozen mini loaves and pack that for his snack.
I've been trying to freeze as much zucchini and yellow squash as I can. Store bought zucchini/yellow squash is expensive and pretty sick looking, tasting and feeling with all the wax on them. Yuck!
To freeze the zucchini/yellow squash, what I do is rinse it in cold water, and then using my vidalia onion chopper
, diced it up into pieces. Add to the freezer bag and put in the freezer for several hours. If I don't freeze it first, the FoodSaver tends to suck the juice out of the vegetables and then stops working. Once the vegeatables are frozen, I seal the bags using the FoodSaver. The FoodSaver sucks all the air out of the bag, so that it is vacuum packed. It's pretty cool.
Today I made zucchini bread. Yum it's soooo good!!!! I made a full loaf and eight mini loaves. I sliced the mini loaves and placed them into freezer bags using my FoodSaver. My new favorite kitchen item. I've had it for about seven years, but forgot about it, until a few weeks ago when I rediscovered it. It's just a small version, but it's awesome for freezing food. Food stays fresher much longer than regular zip freezer bags. My little 5 year old starts kindergarten soon and I have to supply all of his snacks and I plan on packing his lunch. He loves zucchini bread, so now during the winter I can pull out one of the frozen mini loaves and pack that for his snack.
I've been trying to freeze as much zucchini and yellow squash as I can. Store bought zucchini/yellow squash is expensive and pretty sick looking, tasting and feeling with all the wax on them. Yuck!
To freeze the zucchini/yellow squash, what I do is rinse it in cold water, and then using my vidalia onion chopper
, diced it up into pieces. Add to the freezer bag and put in the freezer for several hours. If I don't freeze it first, the FoodSaver tends to suck the juice out of the vegetables and then stops working. Once the vegeatables are frozen, I seal the bags using the FoodSaver. The FoodSaver sucks all the air out of the bag, so that it is vacuum packed. It's pretty cool.
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