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Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Preventing freezer burn

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Thank you all for your kind words of congratulations following Moshe's birth! I still haven't typed the birth story but am hoping to do that this week, along with taking more pictures to share, rambling about mommy stuff, etc... :)

We've been doing lots of this:

Eliyahu and Moshe

...and loving EVERY minute of it!!

But, let's get down to business. After a couple weeks' vacation, I have a kitchen tip for you!

As I pulled this container of cooked pinto beans out of the freezer, I remembered to snap a picture of what I do to prevent freezer burn on anything in a container with air space:

Preventing freezer burn

Press plastic wrap against the food before freezing. This also works great on ice cream in a box, partially used, in a home where ice cream stays in the freezer long enough to get ice crystals on top. (This no longer happens in our house but before we had kids, it did!)

To Participate in Kitchen Tip Tuesdays:

Post a kitchen tip in your blog. Link to this post, and then leave your link here, so we know where to find YOU! :) No giveaways or non-tip posts, please!

In order to keep the kitchen tips more easily accessible, posts not adhering to these guidelines will be removed. We need to be able to easily find/see what your kitchen/cooking tip is. :) Thanks for your participation! :)

Leave your tip links in a comment. I'll manually add them to this post!

1. Making heart-shaped omelets (Tara)
2. Using your food scale (Kim)
3. Dried beans in crock pot
4. Reverse-engineering processed foods (Katie)
5. Kitchen recycling tips (Kolfinna)
6. Pizza tips (Lindsay)
7. Fresh pineapple (Annie)
8. Kitchen inventory management (Rachel)
9. Dirty dishes tip (Melinda)
10. Saving Ziplock bags (Mary Jo)
11. Measuring spoons tip
12. Beans w/less gas (Cheryl B.)
13. Testing bundt cakes for doneness (Alea)
14. Homemade corn tortillas (Nancy)
15. Easy chopping for boiled eggs (Becky)
16. Quick tuna melts

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Comments

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 03:13.

Great tip!

Tammy, that's a great tip- one I will surely put to good use!
Now- can we see more pics of the baby?!??!!!??!
:-)
He's beautiful!
-Donna-

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 06:29.

My tip

Moshe is beautiful! I've been stopping by to see your pictures the last couple of weeks.

My tip is about making heart-shaped omelets or pancakes inexpensively. They came out really well.

http://www.feelslikehomeblog.com/2010/02/how-to-make-a-heart-shaped-omelet/

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 07:56.

what a great tip, Tammy!

what a great tip, Tammy! Now that I'm freezing more and more goodies this will come in handy.

Blessings,
SnoWhite @ Finding Joy in My Kitchen

ps - your little one is precious... and the look on your son's face holding him; wow!

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 08:05.

Kitchen Tip

Kim (Using your food Scale)
http://www.adventuresofastayathomemom.com/2010/02/if-i-have-to-go-on-scale-you-are-too.html

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 08:06.

Kitchen Tip

How to cook dried beans in a crock pot
http://thelocalcook.com/2010/01/18/pantry-essentials-all-about-beans/

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 08:28.

How to Reverse Engineer Packaged Food

http://www.kitchenstewardship.com/2010/01/26/how-to-reverse-engineer-a-recipe-for-real-food-quality/

God bless your growing family!

Submitted by Lilyofthevalley on Tue, 2010-02-09 09:36.
Lilyofthevalley's picture

great tip!

Great tip! Moshe looks adorable and big brother is just beaming. :)

LOL, ice cream does not last very long around here either. :)

~Tanya - mama to 6 treasures. :)

Submitted by kolfinna on Tue, 2010-02-09 10:17.

Kitchen Recycling

I posted about kitchen recycling today. I also posted a tip last week. Just scroll down the page and you can read it as well as all the past KTT posts I've made.

http://kolfinnaskorner.blogspot.com/search/label/kitchen%20tip%20tuesday

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 11:17.

Two Homemade Pizza Tips

http://thekingsmissus.blogspot.com/2010/02/two-pizza-tips.html

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 11:23.

Thanks for sharing your tip

Thanks for sharing your tip on how to prevent freezer burn this has happened a few times to me and we had to throw something out
Here is my tip for preparing fresh pineapple http://shopannies.blogspot.com/2010/02/prepare-fresh-pineapple.html

shopannies@yahoo.com

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 11:27.

Here's my tip

Inventory management for the kitchen
http://trialanderrorhomeec.blogspot.com/2010/02/ktt-inventory-management.html

Congrats on Moshe! He's just precious!

Thanks!
Rachel.

Submitted by mindahh on Tue, 2010-02-09 11:35.

dirty dishes

thank you for your tip!

and for finding the time to post when you MUST be soo busy:)

melinda@mamabearscubhouse

http://mamabearscubhouse.com/2010/02/09/dirty-no-more.aspx

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 12:08.

beautiful

Your baby is so Beautiful we're looking forward to another newborn in October and I can't wait to hold it!!!!!!

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 14:45.

saving ziplock bags

Here is my tip for the week:

http://www.covenanthomemaking.com/2010/02/reuse-your-ziplock-bags.html

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 15:58.

Organizing measuing spoons

I love this tip - especially when it comes to ice cream. Although, we don't usually have trouble getting rid of ice cream....

Here's my tip:
http://more-than-rubies-blog.blogspot.com/2010/02/kitchen-tip-organizing-measuring-spoons.html

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 17:05.

GREAT picture of your

GREAT picture of your boys!!! So-o-o precious!!!

I shall most definetly remember the tip you shared with us today and give it a try!!!

My link: Cheryl B. - adding gas cutter http://thebzhousethatlovebuilt.blogspot.com/2010/02/adding-gas-cutter.html

Submitted by Alea on Tue, 2010-02-09 17:56.

Testing Doneness of Bundt cakes

I love that picture!

Great tip! With teenagers in the house, ice-cream doesn't last long enough to sublimate, but I will give it a try on beans.

My tip is to use an uncooked piece of spaghetti or skewer to test depper cakes (like Bundt cakes) for doneness: http://premeditatedleftovers.blogspot.com/2010/02/testing-doneness-of-bundt-cakes.html

Alea @ Premeditated Leftovers

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 18:01.

Tip--Making Homemade Corn tortillas

Making homemade corn tortillas is much easier than you think.
http://basketmasterweavings.blogspot.com/2010/01/homemade-corn-tortillas.html

Keep enjoying that baby snuggling time!
Nancy

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 18:22.

Becky--Easy egg chopping

Love the tip.

http://delightthyselfinthelord.blogspot.com/2010/02/kitchen-tip-tuesday.html

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-02-09 22:12.

Quick Lunch Mixed Up

I posted about the quick tuna sandwiches with variations around here. Learning to make the quick version of tuna melts definitely helped get my girls eating fish!

http://mrspear.blogspot.com/2010/02/quick-lunch.html

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2010-02-10 16:45.

Such a proud big brother

Nice to see such love beaming through a big brothers face.

Submitted by Mrs. Paradis on Thu, 2010-02-11 17:23.

He is so Adorable.Can't wait

He is so Adorable.Can't wait to hear about your birth story and to see more pictures of the kids with the baby and maybe some of Dad & Mom with the baby too???

Great tip!!!

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