Pizza Ponderings

I got Dan a Seal-a-Meal food vacuum for Fathers Day. While making dinner for tonight, I realized how handy this could be for future pizza nights. Tonights pizza consisted of making the dough, making the sauce, roasting and chopping the peppers, steaming and chopping the broccoli, chopping the onions, and chopping and cooking the chicken. The spinach was already chopped and the cheese already grated. I realized that it could all be prepped ahead of time easily and frozen, especially using the vacuum.

This ties into why we are expanding our gardens. We want healthy, organic, fresh produce. The problem comes into play in preserving it. Who knows how to can anymore? I am planning on learning. I also want to preserve by freezing and my hope is to be able to get lots of meals ready to go. I dont want just frozen casseroles and soups. If we ever get around to ordering some chickens and grass fed beef, this will need to be preserved as well. Obviously it will be frozen, but I would like to stuff some, marinate some, precook some, etc. so it can be pulled out and meal ready.

I have been thinking to of trying to get a bunch of mamas together next year to preserve the harvest. If we get organized in spring with what everyone is growing, hopefully we could get together a couple of times throughout the harvest and prep, can, etc. while taking turns keeping an eye on the kids.