to freeze or not to freeze

Say hello to my little friend…(and if you could read this in Al Pacino’s Scarface voice it would be even better)

not sure what you’re looking at? well it’s the white box, under the snowboard bags.  My 3.5 cubic foot friend of freezing goodness, that Mr Weiss and I picked up from the good ole Home Depot and shoved out in the baby barn.  This my friends is what I’ve had me knickers in a twist over, my intention is to stuff this thing to the gills, should Armageddon be knockin on me doorstep I’ll have a nice hot bowl of soup in me hands before I go down!

So when Mr Weiss insisted we get this…

the bushel of broccoli from this past weekend, he also was in charge of floret-ing (?) it into manageable pieces and let the blanching begin! We read online it was better to freeze, quickly blanched broccoli, than raw.  So be it, I said, and gave myself a facial at the same time…this turned into…

bags and bags of blanched broccoli and 4 quarts of cream of broccoli soup… recipe might show up sometime later… we kept some fresh to eat and this week as I will make this again.  Which by the way if you haven’t made yet and you like both broccoli and shrimp, what are you waiting for? It’s delicious.

I also had a batch of this waiting in the wings…

and this, made this past weekend… how I didn’t blow out the motor in my immersion blender I’ve no idea.

and lastly I whipped up a sexy, hot, veggie Thai green curry that’ll knock ya socks off… (recipe later) to contribute to this…

the goal is to have this sucker GROANING with goodies… of course front and center is the Trader Joe’s Pizza dough and behind it in the ziplock bag’s my famous Blueberry Pierogies. I can’t wait to start rummaging around in this thing.