Eleven-portion chilli

[bugshaw]

Wow, that took a whole hour of peeling and chopping vegetables. Cooking the mushroom and aubergine down in a separate pan, then doing the same for the root veg, helps fit so much in the end into the big pot. I wonder if I even have eleven plastic tubs for freezing it?

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[tarchannan.livejournal.com]

And before noon!

[lnr]

I do occasionally wonder if I ought to be doing this - but then I remember that our freezer is essentially full already - so even if I had enough tubs (I don't) they wouldn't fit. Drat :)

[flick.livejournal.com]

We freeze this sort of thing in plastic bags: a minute in the microwave to soften the edges, then you can roll the sides of the bag down, tip the lump into a bowl and finish cooking it.

[jinty]

We find bags go kinda shapeless in the freezer and then are inconvenient to fit in a pan, so we bought a large number of Tupperwares of various sizes.

[flick.livejournal.com]

I usually arrange the bags neatly in a row inside a bigger container, so that they freeze into little bricks, and then take them out of the container when they're solid.

[jinty]

We tried that recently but they froze less neatly than yours in the bigger container in that it was really hard to prise a single bag out.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed - my biggest vessel only yields 8-9 portions.

I really need to do a big batch - now that I'm going to the gym after work again, I really do need things to put straight into the microwave when I get hom.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Hungry people might want bigger portions, but these are good one-heaped-ladle size to bulk out with veg and rice on the side. I feel so much better when I have proper nosh available when I'm too tired to cook, instead of the quick fix of salty, fatty (tasty!) microwave rice.

[jinty]

We did a Rabbit bolognaise from a Jamie Oliver recipe a bit ago - yielding around 16 portions! Quite strong tasting so you don't need that much. Nice.

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Clearly it's the weekend for it because I made a massive chilli on Friday night. I have no idea how many portions it was.... 7 different containers - each one at least two portions....

It is a very very big pot. :-)