bulk cooking

I do all my dads cooking because I like to know he is getting nutritious food and home cooked meals. He loves me to make Shepherds pie, fish pies and stews.

I bulk cook for him and fill his freezer, he only has a small freezer but it can fit quite a few meals in there.

Do you do bulk cooking and if so what do you cook and freeze? I'm looking for other ideas.

I often make him soups but I do them fresh.

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I bulk cook lots of things, LQ. Stock, Cottage pies, fish pies. stews, soups, various sauces to add to pasta, Chilli, Curry, Chinese, Japanese, Polish and Russian dishes. Having friends who turn up unexpectedly and want to be fed - I have to keep a good stock.

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I don't know any Polish, Russian or Japanese dishes Chinese, I never thought of that, good thinking batman

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can you freeze stir frys?

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I do what is basically mince & onions.

That can be served with ...

pasta & cheese (spag bol), baked beans & tabasco (chilli con carne), mash & worc sauce (cottage pie) and so on.

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Try cooking beef stroganoff (Russian). Easy to make. Real tasty.

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I did some bulk Bolognaise sauce a few days ago, and a load of Vegetable Soup with barley today. That's as far as I've got so far.

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Best if you prepare the ingredients and freeze them raw, LQ. You can stir fry them from frozen in minutes. If you cook them first they go a bit soggy.

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Today I made up a gallon of Minestrone. And then froze it in pints. Figuring that if I do get sick, even from the flu, I'll want warm healthy liquid. So, it is primarily a nice vegetable stock. I cooked the heck out of it to extract more of the goodness from the vegetables.

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I have about a gallon of good Jewish Chicken soup in my freezer - I defy any virus to argue with that!