Four Loaves

Made the easy bread dough last night. I used the KitchenAid this time and it was a snap! (last time I tried the food processor – and it overflowed) It’s just a basic white bread – but the book has several other recipes (including dessert dough and whole sandwich bread) that all use the same really easy method. It’s one of those refrigerated wet-dough systems where you don’t knead anything – just mix, let sit in the fridge, and then cut some off and bake!
Here’s info on the book (Minnesota authors):
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/taste/12149761.html?elr=KArks5PhDcU9PhDcU9PhDcUU

In October I’m going to try to transition us to all homemade bread. Since we’ve been taking lunches to work, we’ve been plowing through loaves. Each of which are almost four dollars – and chock full of processing agents.

Last night we also made a vegan black-eyed peas and mushroom curry that we’ll take to our friend’s wedding reception/potluck (and one dinner serving for our deep freeze) and a creamy lentil/chickpea/great northern/butter bean curry (I was cleaning out the pantry) that froze into four dinners plus lunch today for for CC and me.

And finally, I pulled apart cheese slices from Costco and wrapped weekly portions in wax paper for freezing. There’s no way we’d get through two pounds of cheddar, two pounds of Swiss, and two pounds of American cheese food product before it all molded – so now it’s conveniently subdivided and chilled. We'll see how it all that cheese thaws, but it's just for lunch sandwiches, so I'm not to worried.

So the grand total:
18 dinners in the freezer;
14 weeks worth of cheese for lunches;
Not bad for two nights’ work!

Dinner at our best friends tonight and then tomorrow begins the great soup adventure!

Should the deep freezer get a name?