Cooking ahead

[jrsygal37]

Originally Posted by Tink

With summer officially here, I know there are going to be hot days when I simply do not want to cook. I like to do my cooking for the week on a single day as much as I can and freeze or refrigerate meals to be microwaved as I need them.

What recipes do you have that might work well for doing this?

Tink, Really anything will work. What I do is buy the freezer to microwave compartment plates. Whenever, I cook dinners such as Prime Rib, Roast Beef etc. I always get a big roast. I usually will make sides like double baked potatoes and string bean cassarole. Whatever is left I'll put a potatoe in one compartment, string bean in another and the beef and gravy in the last. It works out great because my two boys play baseball and we are always doing games and tired of eating the crap so when we get home we just heat in the microwave and we have a beautiful dinner. E.