I have been super busy the last 2 weeks.. so haven't really had a minute, but I just have to share this with you. I spent the day with a friend last week that got me started with the freezer meals. She is a really good cook, really more along the lines of an amazing cook. We spent the day putting up meals, all made with beef. I never had any idea that she had so many great meals that can be frozen made with beef. But now I have totally changed my plan on freezer meals and I am going to be making a few of her meals to add to my freezer.
So " Here's the Beef"..
I just give you a run down on the day and what the dishes were. If you have any questions, please ask and I will try to answer right away, if I don't know I will get with her this might take a day or two. But I will try to answer everyone. She did cook quite a few roast the day before and over night. Plus her 2 daughters and 3 daughter in laws and me where on hand to help.
Frist, Let me say she did a lot of stuff before hand. So here we go..
1) She had her DH grill a couple of briskets (3) on the BBQ the day before low and slow, for shredded BBQ Beef. I was task with shredding it all and adding it into a pot of simmering BBQ sauce, she will not tell me the recipe, but its a cross between a southern sweet and North Carolina tangy. Which simmered most of the morning, then taken off the stove to cool, once cooled she puts it in freezer bags but different portion size.
2) Beef, Broccoli and Wild Rice -With a chuck roast that she had cooked over night which had been marinated in a Asian style marinade, she had me slice it up, then blanched the broccoli just till it turned bright green into an ice bath to stop the cooking, she had cooked a large pot of wild rice the night before. Then we mixed the broccoli and wild rice with the sliced beef, and she made a sauce out of the dripping from the pan the beef was cooked in, then put it all back into the pan, tossed and coated, let it cool then into some freezer containers. We had some of this for lunch and all I can say was yummo...
3) Beef Stew 2 ways - one the traditional style ( beef, carrots, potatoes'), then one with more veggies added in, once cool into the freezer containers.
4) Beef & Vegetable, Beef & Barley, Beef Veggie & Pasta - Soup - Basically she made a huge pot of beef with onions and seasoning ( just basic salt, pepper, and some garlic), then divided it all out and went on to make the 3 soups. She likes to use Freezer bags for soup
5) Sliced beef for fajitas, or tacos also with some of the meat she sliced and mixed with yellow rice, and corn for burrito's. I did not help on these, but I know she did a Mexican inspired marinade, and there were jalapenos, red onions and some other peppers in the dish and roasted with the meat. She said you just throw it in the crock pot and warm, and some wraps, and lettuce, cheese and sour cream or whatever you like and your good to go.
That's where they were when I left which was a 8:00pm boy was I tired, they were still going strong, they had French onion soup with beef, and meatballs that they were trying to finish.
