Massive Cook Up - wdyt?

[briggsy's girl]

not particularly arguing the point limeslice - i guess i was more looking at it from the POV of myself (and lulu who was saying about going to the markets for her veg) - most of ours comes straight from our own or my bro's garden - spuds we go to the spud farm and get them day after they're picked, so frozen has nothing on that! its not unusual for us to pick the vegies just as we need them for dinner around here!! (there are definite advantages to living in the sticks - esp when the sticks are not too far from prime spud country!!)

plus, whether they're more nutritious or not - frozen carrot, capsicum and the likes - they just don't taste right!!!

just waiting on a reply from DH - this thread (and the delish soup i cooked up) have me motivated to cook some more - just not sure which chicken dish will reheat best for DH in the truck - so have to wait on him telling me what he wants!

lulu - another thing i was thinking after posting earlier - have you thought about communal type cooking with others? we do it all the time with my bro and SIL - we cook for us and for them - they cook something different - we play swapsies - makes for more variety of meals without extra stress... would be a way of getting things that you don't have room to cook - you could do the SC type stuff (i'm assuming you have one - shoot me if you dont) that takes up minimal room - and someone else could make the more space-intensive things (lasagne and the likes that take up room for cooking spag base, white sauce, assembly etc) - win win for everyone...

bellalass - we do something like that with vegies - little bit of everything, white sauce, pasta if we want to add some more bulk and have it as a meal on it's own - no pasta if we're serving it with meat. spud, sweet spud, carrot, zucchini, onion, peas, corn, parsnip, turnip, swede - whatever else we can find (cept pumpkin!) - fry it lightly in a small amount of garlic butter - boil some cauli and broccoli - make white sauce - mix it all up and bake it in the oven - we have requests for it when we're going out for dinner - that's my contribution most of the time - kids love it and it's got so many vegies - half of which they can't see!