The second half of the frozen chocolate cake came out for a dinner party in November. I have a report that it seemed a bit stale, but I thought it was pretty good, and that the contact time spent between the cake and the icing made for mushier boundaries between the two, making the whole […]
I know, this one is obvious. People put chunks of raw cookie dough in ice cream and eat it just like that. People have frozen tubes of cookie dough to make Christmas cookies for as long as I can remember (and probably longer). But I don’t think I’ve ever really done this myself. I didn’t […]
Apparently freezing risotto is a great way to make mashed potatoes. I am trying to be the guinea pig for my frozen food experiments, but due to circumstances of timing on this occasion, my wife volunteered (or I volunteered her – the result is the same, anyway) to try a serving of frozen leek risotto […]
At one point I had cut up a fresh pineapple but didn’t have enough time to eat it all before it was going to spoil. We were probably going away on a trip or something. So I froze about 2 cups of nice bright yellow pineapple chunks in a clear bag. For six months I’ve […]
McCain does it, so why can’t I? But my cake doesn’t need to be flavourless despite its claim of chocolatiness, and I don’t need an inch of perfectly peaked fluffy icing on top. I’m talking about good old chocolate layer cake covered with a normal layer of icing which is heavy on the sugar and […]
Beets are undeniably messy, but they are healthy and don’t require much dressing up in order to look and taste like a proper side dish. But who wants to get stuck with stained red hands from scrubbing dirt off the beets every time you want to eat them? So I’ve frozen some scrubbed halved beets […]
Having left the corporate world in order to feed my family during the school year (among other things), I’m faced with the endless culinary possibilities of today’s internet-based recipes and globally sourced exotic foods, while at the same time wanting to take advantage of local and healthy meat and produce where possible. I derive a […]