We have decided that it would really be cheating if I asked Andy to pick up something at the store because his spending ban is over and mine isn't. It's amazingly easy to be quite firm with rules pertaining to something that doesn't matter in the slightest.
The latest issue: The insane volume of pumpkin butter I made on Sunday should be frozen. No matter how full that cupboard may seem, we just don't have THAT many small plastic containers. It might seem like it at times, but we just don't. So, our options were to 1.) Have Andy, freely spending man that he is, go get containers that "we" want, or 2.) bite the bullet and find another way to do this.
I am good under pressure. And faced with two stockpots full of cooked, spiced squash. At first I kept thinking that it wouldn't work to put it in two dozen Ziploc baggies because it would be really hard to scoop out later, and then it hit me: FREEZE IT IN THE BAGGIES, AND HAVE THE SENSE TO PULL IT OUT OF THE BAGGIES WHEN IT'S STILL FROZEN AND MOVE IT TO ANOTHER CONTAINER TO THAW.
Sometimes, I can be brilliant. Not when it would clue me in that 4 pumpkins cannot possibly cook down enough to make 3 8-ounce jars of any particular substance, but at least it kicks in occasionally.
2 comments:
When I reached the 2nd paragraph my 1st thought was Ziploc bags. Then you said it. Clearly we are both Jeen-yusses.
Actually if you ever need to freeze stuff and only have tie-close baggies? Use them to line a container. Put stuff in the bag, in the container. Tie close at the top. Freeze. Pop out of the container and you have container-shaped frozen stuff in a bag, and you can re-use the container as many times as needed. And the bonus? When you need to defrost, just pop it back in the container- it will fit perfectly.
(I'm also a big fan of freezing single-servings in yogurt cups- I never seem to run out of the cups, and one-yogurt-cup-ful of applesauce defrosts in 5 minutes in the microwave for a bowl of warm applesauce on a chilly winter morning.)
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