cooking shortcuts and premade food ideas

[so lucky]

thanks for the good tips, Just Me!

 

[KnittyGritty]

Moolie - I followed your recipe for Baked Beans on this thread, but after filling the 6 pint jars, I still have a little over 3 C. of the soaked beans (and I already had filled the rest of the canner with 8 jars of plan. Can I label them Soaked Beans and freeze them, then thaw them and use them later as if I had just soaked them overnight?

 

[Wannabefree]

just my opinion here....but I think you'd want to go ahead and cook those beans first, but I'm not positive on that, so don't quote me

 

[baymule]

I love a good roast beef. It takes hours of slow cooking to get it to the fork tender stage that we like it. So when I got home from work and started supper, I put a roast in the oven to cook. We ate supper, showers, watch a little TV, and just before bed, I took the roast out and put it in the refrigerator. Next evening, I popped it in the oven to warm up while I prepared the side dishes. Then of course, we had leftovers I could get creative with.

For quick pizzas, I buy flour tortillas and put a spoon full of sphagetti sauce on it, pepperoni, onion, or whatever, cheese and bake on cookie sheet at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes. Also a good way to use up leftover meats.

 

[moolie]

Moolie - I followed your recipe for Baked Beans on this thread, but after filling the 6 pint jars, I still have a little over 3 C. of the soaked beans (and I already had filled the rest of the canner with 8 jars of plan. Can I label them Soaked Beans and freeze them, then thaw them and use them later as if I had just soaked them overnight?

just my opinion here....but I think you'd want to go ahead and cook those beans first, but I'm not positive on that, so don't quote me

Yup, cook 'em first I freeze cooked beans all the time when I don't feel like canning, especially during the summer/fall when my canner is already busy.

That said, doesn't your pressure cannner fit two layers of jars? Mine is an 18 Litre (about 19 quarts) and I can do a total of 16 pints in two layers. I don't often have more than 10 or 11 in a batch of anything though.

 

[KnittyGritty]

Yes, I can do 2 layers for a total of 14 pints, but I had already put in 8 jars of plain already-soaked pinto beans. I guess I should have put in the baked beans first! Plus I have a TON of cooked beans in the freezer already, so I was just trying to avoid adding more. But, thanks, I'll go ahead and cook the leftovers and stick them in the freezer.

 

[moolie]

Ah, I missed the bit about the plain beans--sorry for the confusion!