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Decided to make veg beef soup. Going to roast the beef in the oven for a few hours with some chicken broth with wine & thyme. Then continue to empty the freezer. Should be able to use up lots of misc veggies.

Hi Kathy,
Your CFTF threads should take on a new flair with the pitter patter of four little feet in your household! Jasmine has her own fridge drawer, and a freezer section.

Her freezer section has special bones I get custom cut at the natural food store. They are marrow bones (legs) from a small processor. The butcher gets them in whole sections so he can custom cut. Most marrow bones are cut shorter, she will gulp them so we get them cut at 3 inches.

My friend also makes her a brown rice and livers mixture that she gives me in ziplock bags for the freezer. And of course there are the small bits of gristle from poultry (the ends of legs), and the gizzards and hearts from whole chickens. I also freeze the bananna peanut butter biscotti for dogs that she makes, it just keeps better in there and I dole those out very slowly.

Her fridge section has outdated eggs that I cook for her, empty marrow bones that we refill with tiny bits of peanut butter or low fat Velveeta (only about a teaspoon), and opened cartons of Beneful which I give her a little bit of smeared on a plate after dinner.

I'm sure Wendall would help you with any bad freezer burned ground beef or other questionables. The more questionable the better in their minds I think.

Semi-hijack over.

Lynn

Ain't that the truth...

Amy

Added to the soup - a bag of Cope's corn, some ocra & some greens. Looks good

Okay, okay - you've shamed me into action. My freezers have made it to the top of this year's 'to do' list just because of this thread. For the record: I will try really, really hard to buy no more meat (of any species) until every last bit has been transformed into people chow. Currently they hold lobster shells, smoked black cod, salmon up the ying-yang, pork in many forms, likewise beef (including two tongues), chicken breasts, whole turkeys, parmigiano rinds, ginger, and probably my lost car keys.

Today (or at least this weekend) will see the demise of bags of beef bones becoming stock and then reunited with its brethern - the leftover beef pieces I couldn't bear to throw from numerous roasts and steaks. Simultaneously, all of the captured heirloom tomato juices from countless bruschetta preps over summer will be pureed, sieved, and reduced to make some sort of sauce - hopefully to be combined tomorrow with the beef broth to create some sort of hybrid, edible dish - soup, stew, or, with a little vodka, maybe a shooter ...

Do I have to use up all of the flours???

Don't laugh!! I actually found my lost car keys in the freezer! Evidently, I had them in my hand when in came in, and set them down to get something out of the freezer....... ("if I only had a brain...") It was, shall we say, embarrasing.

i don't think it is required to use up the flours, but I do think there will be a lot of veg soup being consumed in this group in the next few weeks.
Kathy

I just took a 5 lb pot roast out of the freezer, posted another thread about how to cook it.
Am working my way through a box of baguettes from Costco (par baked, 8 minutes in the oven to finish them off, we love this bread and it's very economical when bought in a box of 20) so one of those for lunch.
We were away for a week (WDW) but used 4 salmon fillets from the freezer for dinner last night too.

I pulled some U-10 scallops for dinner tonight with a fresh salad.

While I was at it, I grabbed a package of 6 chicken thighs for arroz con pollo tomorrow. Plantains are ripening nicely as an accompaniment.