Not exact matches
I am a
big advocate of making
big meals, like a bean chilli I do in the slow
cooker, and then freezing a load of
portions for the next few weeks.
Salmon
cooks pretty quickly and when it's done, place a
portion of it in a
big lettuce wrap.
This Cottage Pie recipe is excellent to use for
big families by
cooking in bulk and freezing the
portions.
My
biggest «aha moment» was learning you can eat any foods, the
portion and
cooking method are the drivers in keeping food healthy.
I now make them in the pressure
cooker in
big batches and freeze them in
portion sizes, but no matter how you eat»em, beans are good food.
«He was thinking about opening up an Italian family style restaurant like Coney Island geared toward Sunday night at your house, with grandmother
cooking old - fashioned Italian recipes —
big portions on platters put out family style — or similar to an Italian wedding,» Bank relates.
However, you could alternatively add everything to the
big pot that you
cooked your noodles in and serve individual
portions from there.
My husband quickly got in the habit of giving me the
biggest piece of meat every time he
cooked, and doing «mama math» every time he calculated
portions from a recipe (whatever it calls for, add a little extra, and make sure there's enough for one person's worth of seconds).
The
biggest limit with any carb - containing food will be your
portion size, and by that we mean smaller
portions: 1/4 of a cup of
cooked brown rice or sweet potato contains around 12.5 grams of carbohydrates.
«Sometimes, when I'm organized, I'll
cook a
big batch of beans and freeze individual - sized
portions so I know they're homemade and as nutritious as possible — and failing that, I use canned.»
Cook up a
big batch of chopped veggies at the beginning of the week, then reheat a
portion as you're frying up your free - range egg and nitrate - free sausage.
If you'd rather
cook a
big pot of quinoa for multiple uses, simply put the
portion you'd like to use for the porridge into a pot (or a bowl if you're doing the microwave thing), just barely cover with milk, and heat until most (but not all) of the liquid has been absorbed.
So I
cook a
big batch of steel cut oats as part of a «have time to
cook» night and freeze them in ready to go
portions.
The
biggest portion of the gameplay that can easily be overlooked is
cooking.
I know
cooking home made meals can seem complicated, but you can always
cook bigger amount and freeze it in meal size
portions.