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Last night I had some people over for dinner. Despite the fact that I got a late start on the main dishes, everything turned out perfectly and a good time was had by all. The only slightly-embarrassing moment in the entire evening came when, before I could stop him, my friend's husband opened my freezer in pursuit of ice for his drink (I had forgotten to put any out).
The door open, he stood and gaped for a moment and said, " Who eats all this food?" I quickly tried to explain that I like to keep a fairly stocked freezer so that I can pull meals together easily. I also tend to have three or four varieties of nuts, some summer fruit and homemade chicken broth stashed away as well. He shrugged and said, "Often when you open our freezer, all you see in there is a bottle of Skyy Vodka."
The picture above is my very own freezer, complete with half a bag of Trader Joe's string beans, a pound of chicken legs from Whole Foods and more frozen chicken broth than you can shake a stick at. In return, I want to know, what do the rest of you have in your freezer? Please share the mundane the quirks as inquiring minds want to know (and be assured that they aren't all that strange).
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12-03-2007 @11:14AM ericamklein said... I've got a few bags of nuts, a bag of frozen edamame in their shells, a few different kinds of dough (whole wheat pizza, dinner rolls, and pie crust), some unusual meats (a couple of rabbits and some venison) plus a bag of shrimp, a big container of turkey stock, a jar of mole sauce, a container of cranberry relish, and probably some other bits and bobs that I made too much of and kept around for use later.
While its not the case right now, as my other half recently finished them off, I also usually keep a couple varieties of homemade versions of your typical frozen snack food - tamales, potato skins, pierogies, and sometimes ravioli or samosas.
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12-03-2007 @11:15AM Marisa McClellan said... Erica, your freezer sounds awesome. I especially love the idea of having homemade versions of typical snack foods. So smart!
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12-03-2007 @11:17AM Knile said... I live in a house with 3 other roommates, and we all have very different eating and shopping habits. I was attacked by our freezer last night: bananas, lima beans, mixed vegetables, chicken pot pies, Ghirardelli chocolate bars (guilty), a rice pack for sore muscles, a mug, bags of shrimp, Thanksgiving turkey, soups, vodka sauce, jalapenos, green chile flown to New York from New Mexico by a friend, spaghetti.
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12-03-2007 @11:18AM kevjohn said... One 1.75 liter bottle of Seagram's Gin (was on sale), one box of microwave mac & cheese that soneone bought me (still sitting in there, 8 months later), some ice, one Sara Lee cheesecake.
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12-03-2007 @11:33AM Brighella said... As its the end of fruit season, our freezer is full of strawberries, cherries, and some peaches that we tray froze and then put into gallon freezer bags. Theres some pie crust, nuts, raisins, and in one corner, the meat is segregated (Hubs is vegetarian). As mandarins come into the market, they're next on the freezer trays, all destined to go to the vitamix
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12-03-2007 @11:32AM onepointfivevolt said... My freezer is full of about 20 pork chops, a pork loin, maple breakfast sausage -- I like pork, ok?, a bunch of bags of veggies, a pack of hot dogs -- beef, actually, frozen burritos, a bottle of Bailey's, two bags of pierogies, about four pounds of french fries, and about 10 pounds of chinese dumplings. Yes, some of those are pork.
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12-03-2007 @11:34AM angiepakie said... lean cuisine, korean dumplings, boca burgers, chicken, salmon, and frozen veggies!
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12-03-2007 @11:37AM LySiNe said... 1/2 loaf of whole wheat bread.
10 lbs of sirloin.
5lbs of pork loin.
2 lb Bag of frozen shrimp
5lb Bag of frozen pollack.
Cilantro
Thai Birdseye chillies
Korean hot pepper flakes
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12-03-2007 @11:49AM Carolyn said... Tons of Lean Cuisine
Edmame
Frozen tilapia and salmon filets
Frozen veggies
Boca chicken and burger patties
One lone boneless porkchop
1/2 loaf walnut bread
Frozen ices (the artificial kind in a tube) from the summer
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12-03-2007 @11:52AM ericamklein said... Marissa - one of our (my bf and I) goals is to completely cut out supermarket processed foods from our diet - we thinks its a lot healthier and a lot more fun to make things from scratch! But its awfully hard to give up all those convenience foods, so we just started making our own :) Its a lot of fun, and the best part is that you know exactly what goes into everything you eat, and you can make everything taste exactly how you want, and whenever you want a little nosh all you have to do is pull one out of the freezer.
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12-03-2007 @12:09PM melissa.agnew said... My freezer is pretty empty right now. Normally it's stuffed full of pre-made dinners that I make myself (actually for my work lunch). Frozen berries, a pie shell, way too many ice trays, gel packs for headaches, hummus, green onions, bananas. That's it. There's a lot of empty space in there right now, so I could probably put my nuts in there. Normally there is no room.
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12-03-2007 @12:19PM coffeefrappe said... Our freezer contains the following:
1)A couple frozen loaves of whole grain bread. I like to make my own, but sometimes I am too busy living to bake bread from scratch. I used to use my machine for this process, but it sustained a fall and I have yet to ascertain if it is still able to churn out a decent loaf.
2)Packages of frozen meats that were bought fresh in bulk and repackaged into meal sized portions.
3)Ice pops/popsicles. These need to be tossed since I know I haven't bought any since summer.. Blech!
4)Ice cream, usually a couple of varieties.
5)Ice trays
6)My liquor stash. Right now it's a bottle of Seagram's 7 destined for whiskey sours, sans egg white froth.
7)Batteries. I always heard growing up that they keep better/stay fresh longer if kept in the freezer. Don't know if that's even true, but I do it anwyays.
8)A couple cans of fruit juice concentrate.
This all sounds pretty bland and boring. I like reading about your culinary adventures, Marissa. I share your passion for vintage recipes and have my own collection which began with my great grandmother's collection.
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12-03-2007 @12:26PM meanie said... I love your freezer - looks a lot like mine:
1 qt. frozen gazapacho
1 qt. frozen spicy lentil soup
1 lb frozen Hatch green chiles
frozen grapes
2 麻辣火锅 (mala huo guo) packages
about 20 random packages of fish/beef/pork balls for mala huo guo
rhodes frozen bread loafs
frozen beef patties from walmart (i shall die in food.lover hell for this)
edamame - like 5 lbs
frozen veggies
stoli vodka.
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12-03-2007 @12:27PM corey_harmon said... A bottle of Bailey's and pine nuts.
I have the good fortune to live in an area where we have farmer's markets all year round, so I don't worry about freezing things to get myself through the winter. I've made a big effort in the past year or so to stop eating frozen food and it's going pretty well, hence the empty freezer.
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12-03-2007 @1:02PM MJ said... My freezer was stocked full of everything.....until somone didnt close it good and everything was thawed out when noticed the next afternoon. Now I have a clean freezer where i can find and know whats in there. i now only keep a few things in there. Thank god I have a deep freezer too.
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12-03-2007 @1:40PM Kat K. said... I have a tiny freezer, and it makes me cranky.
1. Soup dumplings
2. IKEA meatballs
3. Ice trays
4. Kitchenaid ice cream maker bowl attachment (you never know when an ice cream emergency will arise
5. Homemade buttermilk ice cream
6. Homemade grilled peach & beer sorbet
7. A Kentucky Derby pie
8. Hangar 1 Wasabi vodka
9. Hangar 1 Chipotle vodka
10. Tito's vodka
11. Pint of Cherry Garcia (it's my husband's)
If I had a bigger freezer, I'd keep stock and a spare game bird.
My sister used to (and maybe still does) buy whole flats of blueberries in season so she'd have 'em year-round. I do that with cherries, but they never seem to last.
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12-07-2007 @12:36PM Jan said... our freezer has wheat to grind and different grains. blackberries from the pasture.frozen lemon and lime juice. grapes, corn some odds and ends of vege. Peches.
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12-03-2007 @1:36PM Marisa McClellan said... Kat, I hear you. The size of my freezer bugs me too. I wish I had enough room to keep my Kitchen Aid ice cream maker bowl in there. As it stands these days, I have to really plan if I'm going to make ice cream, which basically means I never do it.
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12-06-2007 @11:29AM Kim said... I'm not at home, but off the top of my head:
Kitchen freezer
- 1 lb of cooked shrimp
- 1 lb boneless pork chops
- 1 lb chicken tenders
- 1 lb Italian sausage
- 1 baguette, cut into thirds
- 1 loaf each of white and whole wheat breads
- several 1-cup containers homemade pesto
- several 2-cup containers homemade tomatillo sauce
- frozen peas
- tilapia filets
- pine nuts
- leftover spaghetti sauce
That's all I can think of.
Small extra freezer
- 3 1 lb containers tomatillos (we had a bumper crop ;-)
- 4 2-cup containers chicken stock
- Pampered Chef appetizer tray (after it's been frozen, the bottom part keeps food cold for a long time)
- several cooler ice packs
I know there's more, but that's all I remember right now.
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12-03-2007 @2:15PM hockeysarah said... I make tons of soup using my crock-pot over a few day span, so at the moment I have
~ 6 pint jars of Potato Bacon Soup
~ 9 pint jars of Butternut Squash Soup
~ 4 pint jars of Potato, Bacon, Spinach Soup
~ a few individually wrapped pork chops, steaks, chicken breasts
~ half a loaf of bread (homemade)
~ 4 sticks of butter
~ 1/2 package of hot sausage and 1/2 pack of sweet sausage
~ 1 package of frozen peas
~ 1 package of bacon
Yes, it's scary when anyone opens my freezer. They think I'm crazy.
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