I've spent most of this afternoon in the kitchen ... hubby and I decided to batch cook for the freezer. The original plan was to do lunches for him for work, but then I decided to do 2 meals for me too. I still have loads of Chinese and Indian meals in the freezer, but figured a couple of roast dinners would be a nice change. I have dishes to do 9 for hubby ... any meat left over will just end up frozen in Ziplocs.
I made macaroni cheese from scratch, hadn't made a roux since I was an 11 year old schoolgirl, and it came out perfect. Used almost a 1/2 gallon of milk, and then a pound of sharp cheddar and about 4oz of an Italian 5 Blend, in the sauce for one box of pasta. It made 2 nice deep trays full. One is being frozen as is, either for hubby to take to work when they have a pot luck lunch, the other will be portioned with his bbq pork dinners, along with either baked beans or corn. Some of the pork, corn and/or beans will have loaded baked potato mash instead of macaroni cheese.
His roast pork dinners will be with sage and onion stuffing, loaded baked potato mash, corn and gravy.
Mine will be with boiled potatoes, brussels sprouts, carrots, gravy and sage and onion stuffing. I do love my stuffing, even if I can only have a little bit because of the sodium content, but it's always a treat for me.
I've also got 2 chicken breasts roasting, and he has 2 smoking, so that I can slice the roast ones for future sandwiches, and I can do him a couple of bbq chicken dinners.
I still have to portion everything out once it's all finished cooking, so am getting a quick break, but it's all good.
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