What are you been cooking today

[judydawn]

Great job ES, Christmas sure has come to your place.

I haven't really done much yet as I am unsure at this stage if we will even be able to get to where we are supposed to be going on Christmas Day.  Still time and I do have a big order being delivered in the morning with more ingredients I need.  It's a nice feeling to hand over a pack of home made goodies though so I probably will do them just for something to do to make it feel like Christmas.

Today we had visitors so I rustled up a parcel for them from what I had in the house before they got here - a bottle of Moscato (as I have 7 more coming, don't ask why 7  ) a bottle of Limoncello, a jar of cooked mayonnaise and a scrubby.  We don't often give presents to this couple but today I felt like it.  They did walk in with a tub of homegrown tomatoes, a cucumber and 2 litres of milk as I had rung them to see if they could bring some seeing as I almost ran out last night by making the mayo.

[cookie1]

I have some bread in the oven now. I've been out most of the day and we need bread for breakfast.

[Katiej]

Everything looks great ES, well done 

Home grown tomatoes JD lucky you!  They always taste 100% better than the commercially grown ones.

[Delightful Den]

I made hazelnut meal and coffee biscuits. The recipe will follow when I finish testing it.

[Persistenttiger]

I just boiled some eggs in the thermomix, lol! At least I don't have to worry about boiling the pot dry (which I have done a couple of times before as I am easily distracted), and will be making sticky date pudding for a take along dessert tonight.

[Halex]

Just dinner, but tomorrow & next week hopefully  lots

My meat arrives today, so I dont know how much space I will have in the freezer after its been packed away.
Hooing enough to make some goodies to freeze & takeaway.

I am going to leave some meat out, make up marinade & freeze the neat with the marinade on. Never done ths before but I am thinking it would be OK.

What do others think?

I have frozen marinade on its own OK.
 

[astarra]

I marinade meat then freeze H... works well. HTH. 

[Yvette]

Have you got a vacuum sealer Hally? You could marinade the meat and vac seal 

[Emme]

 Hally,I have marinated steak, vacuum sealed and then froze it, as Astarra says works well 

Marie

[Amy :-)]

Need to make something healthy

[Wonder]

Hally we freeze marinated meat all the time and it works really well.

[Halex]

Thanks willl do so.

How long would meat last vacum sealed in the fridge?

 

[Yvette]

Not sure on that one Hally

[judydawn]

Hally,  check out some vacuum packed meat at the supermarket and perhaps go a little under what they say as their machines are obviously much better than our home models.

[Halex]

I am going to have too!!

Me Miss Organised, not her normal self ordered a whole pig instead of 1/2!!!!

Have to really go through freezers & pack tightly.

Womdered why it cost more, thought they just had bigger animals!!!

Silly me