Mara Michaels

Make and freeze recipes by Mara Michaels
Book starts out with meals and food categories for recipes.
Lots of intro material about how to make large quantities of food and what's best to use that also freezes well.
Some preserve recipes start with a title, servings and list of ingredients. What I Love about the ones I read through is that they are using fresh vegetables, NOT canned and lots of herbs and spices.
Directions are given and there are suggestions for deeper sauce or chunky sauce and how to put seasonings in for make it just right.
Tells you also how long the item will freeze for and how to make it once you take it out of the freezer.
Meal recipes start with a title and list of ingredients and how to make them. Doesn't tell you how many the item will make and there are NO pictures and there is NO nutritional information.
Like the idea of the added recipes, tomato sauce, salsa because you might not always have it on hand.
Book also includes further reading suggestions and newsletter sign up offer.… (más)

This is an informative guide on how to store food properly. From freezer to thawing food, then heating in the microwave or oven, you'll be feeding your family healthily and cheaply. I've been canning and preserving food for quite sometime now, so I was able to pick up a few pointers from the authors. Basically, cooking several times a month frees up your time to enjoy other things. So you'll save time and money when you freeze in bulk. What I liked the most was the idea of color coded containers and labeling for breakfast, lunch and dinner. A useful tip is to spread out flat your containers in the freezer and then later stack them. I will use the Split Pea recipe, the Make-Ahead Tomato Sauce and I especially like the Homemade Chili Powder recipe and the Homemade Italian Seasoning one but the rest of the recipes were just o.k.… (más)