Re: OT: Big Tupperware Sale (Modular Mates)

I have limited space and didn't think I would have a freezer, however I really missed it and the kids gave me a small one that fits in the closet in here for Xmas the first year.

It is great. Since Xmas I have been cooking all sorts meals and soups ready for when I have my knee replaced and won't want to be standing around too much. I don't care for store boughten trash so prefer stuff I cooked myself.

I'll vouch for that, used to freeze a lot when I grew my own veggies. I would get enough for us, plus more. Chuck in the water and remove the extra when blanched and freeze.

I have used a vacuum sealer for many years but am only on the second !

My pet peeve, young women who buy ready made, yucky spud salad. For the price of a small quantity they could buy 20lb of spuds for starters.

They retain more value though...

have fun !

Ok, I'll bite. Tell *this* 46 year old woman what's wrong with heating veggies in the microwave.

Elizabeth

I usually opt for heating broccoli, have you done other veggies? If so, please tell, so far I have only done spuds and brocc. I always do salmon in the nuker, can't be beat. (I know I am not 46 but I'm an old bitch that can still learn new tricks lol)

On 1/11/09 7:42 PM, in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, "lucretia borgia" wrote: SNIP

I'll raise my hand to sometimes buying tater salad. A quarter pound satisfies the odd desire to have some with out breaking the bank or the time factor. By the time you've gotten the potatoes, done the cooking and mixing and waiting, the urge is gone and it goes bad in the fridge.

Cheryl

I'm trying roasting a veggie along with the chicken breasts. Doesn't always appeal to the rest of them, but tasty to me.

She only "warms" them and they are always store bought frozen ones. The baked beans are so cool you might as well eat them out of the can.

On the other hand she has a fulltime job, about an hour commute each way, a husband who travels out of town a fair bit and three ( two now, one is away at school) kids, big house and the cat.

I just like my veggies fresh, cooked to my taste etc.

Gill

I usually have frozen veggies that are packaged for the microwave in the first place, but it does a lovely job of steaming fresh veggies as well - a little water, cover the dish, zap away. You'll have to adjust the time for your taste, but usually around 5 minutes does it.

Elizabeth

I prefer my veggies fresh, but our meals are unpredictable enough that fresh often goes past the point I want to eat them before I get to them. It's just more economical for me to have frozen on hand, especially since DH won't eat most veggies. Warming them is unacceptable though. I like my veggies steaming hot but still crisp, which can be achieved with frozen if one limits the cooking time.

Elizabeth

I do almost all of my veggies in the microwave. Just a little water, usually what's left after rinsing them is enough, cover with saran and nuke them for 4 or 5 minutes, or to taste. I like the way the color is enhanced when they are done in the micro. If I add any seasoning, I usually do that after they cook.

Lucille

I prefer my veggies fresh, but our meals are unpredictable enough that fresh often goes past the point I want to eat them before I get to them. It's just more economical for me to have frozen on hand, especially since DH won't eat most veggies. Warming them is unacceptable though. I like my veggies steaming hot but still crisp, which can be achieved with frozen if one limits the cooking time.

Elizabeth

I most often do use fresh, but I still prefer to steam them in the microwave.

Lucille

Have you tried roasting them yet? Yummy. You can still get the tender-crisp part, but get a whole different layer of flavor.

You sound a bit like my grandmother - who was my favorite. She was the first person I knew to wear fishnet stockings! We got off the plane in NY one summer, and there she was - in a periwinkle mini-skirt suit, complete with some kind of fishnet stockings! She was petite then, and quite fun.

But the house was all about entertaining, and her freezer then always stocked. Moving to the condo in FLA, that was when she decided to sneak in the freezer. My folks thought her a bit nutty, but. She also did kind of hoard other foodstuffs - something about living through very poor times. The spare bedroom wall unit, full of juices - and the shelves on top of the walk-in had curtains covering....shelves of canned goods. My DB and I would tease her, but it made great shopping when home from school - and we did ensure she'd rotate the stock. I would always take my current boyfriend to her place for dinner.

Ellice

Sometimes it might be better to not call it roasted. I find if I bake a spud in the nuker it is better nuked maybe at lunchtime and then renuked later. I don't know why, but they do seem better. This helps too if you need to do several at one time.

I might try 'roasting' though.

I thought you meant she was cooking the fresh ones that way.

So I would still like to know more about experiences with cooking veggies in the nuker.

I have done broc exactly that way - but from fresh, can one nicely do other veggies ?

I want to know which ones though ???? I do broc, but how about beans or cauliflower, does that work too ?

You're worrying me now - as a hangover perhaps from the war years and shortages, I always have at least a second of anything ! I haven't opened a grocery store though, yet lol