Step 1 – Get really mad at yourself
Step 2 – Get really mad at the freezer for not having the alarm go off
Step 3 – Get really depressed at all the food that had to be thrown away, especially since you just paid over $300 for a 1/4 beef and your freezer was full to the gills of beef, chicken, fish and veggies. Argh!
Step 4 – Cook up what is salvageable to refreeze.
Yeah…that was my Saturday.
I made:
- A big pot of pasta meat sauce. Recipe here. I used every single can of plum and diced tomatoes I had in the pantry.
- A pot of sloppy joes. I browned 3lbs of hamburger and mixed in ketchup, dijon mustard, brown sugar, salt, peper and Emeril’s Essence spice. I used at least 3/4 of a bottle of ketchup.
- Cooked two roasts and some steaks on the grill and cut up the meat.
- Cooked two roasts in the oven. I seared them (keeps in the juices), smothered them with horseradish (NOT horseradish sauce, but prepared horseradish), and put them in a big covered roasting pan with one cup of water around them at 300 degrees for 2.5 hours. After they were done, I shredded them, and mixed into a gravy. I made a gravy with drippings from the pan (just put the roaster over two burners on the stove), thickening paste (flour and milk), 2 cans cream of mushroom soup, some salt and pepper. This was super yummy with the horseradish, which really loses any spiciness in cooking. It just has a good flavor to it. It will go well over mashed potatoes with a side of corn.
Not what I had planned to do on Saturday, I’ll say that much.
I make my own sauce, too!! It’s so much cheaper, and it lasts forever when making a huge batch, like that! 🙂 Thanks for the reminder- I am almost due to make mine, too!
PS- yours looks YUMMY! 🙂
PPS- Sorry I missed TT! Your photos were beautiful, as always!
Sounds like a great excuse to invite a bunch of friends over to eat meat! My better late than never TT post is up. Come by and bring some of that tasty looking sauce!
Not the way I would have wanted to spend my Saturday either, but just think of all the meals you have already prepared in the freezer now.
Oh my goodness…I’m not really fond of cooking anyway, so to have to cook all that would definately be hard for me, so kudos to you!
Oh my gosh, what a nightmare! I’m so glad you were able to salvage at least some of it, tho. I lurve sloppy joes – so easy and so yummy! The roasts with horseradish sound great too.
I’m so sorry! What nightmare 🙁
The bright side – lots of cooking DONE for future meals.
bah…definitely not a fun way to spend a saturday. i’m sorry – but great job on salvaging!
Yum! I love to make homemade sauce…your beef with horseradish sounds delish!
Wow! What a nightmare! I hate cooking right now because i don’t have the time. But, I guess you have a ton of stuff now, so you won’t have to cook for a while!
I totally feel for you. Thought I didn’t get to the whole cooking part, we had a similar experience last week. We thought our fridge was going to catch fire last Thursday night so we moved as much as we could to the big freezer, borrowed extra coolers and bought 10 bags of ice hoping my recent grocery trip would not be a total loss. After all that, we Googled the problem we noticed, only to find it was normal, we had just never seen or heard it before. So glad we didn’t have to buy a new fridge, but now I have 10 bags of ice and I can’t find anything in that big freezer (hubby did the loading)! Anyone want to buy some ice? hehe
~Angel
oh no no no. i hate it when stuff like that happens. at least you were able to salvage the food. 🙂