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My pickles to your fam! This all sounds amazing.
I'm very curious about the frozen chicken pot pie and lasagna, mostly about the delivery. Is it sort of a planned gift thing? I ask because I was thinking about making a frozen cobbler, but thought it would be crazy.
If you can freeze it, you can gift it!
We plan our holiday menu and gifts during Labor Day weekend as we’re cooking out and chowing down. Since everyone in my family has a chest freezer in their garage, whomever is hosting Christmas will make that freezer available so we can put our beautifully packaged and labeled gifts inside.
We’ll bring our own cooler if it’s unseasonably warm and make extra ice to put in plastic zip bags.
For our cousins’ significant others, my dad modified a cardboard box to fit a lasagna with room for ice; I’ll be gluing the instructions on the box later on. They don’t know they’re getting it so my dad’s preparing a container for transport. They’re the only ones who have to travel for over an hour.
My aunt got her reusable insulated bags from the grocery store to use for her frozen pot-pies. After her pot-pies are wrapped and frozen, they go into that pre-frozen insulated bag back into the freezer.
I think your frozen cobbler is a great idea! I’ll be borrowing it soon. I hope I answered your question. This is an awesome post with great ideas. Bookmarked!
This is aaaaaaaamazing info! Thanks, and I absolutely plan to borrow these ideas as well. I make a veg lasagna at home for a big weekend meal with leftovers for the week, and so making a double batch and popping one in the chest freezer in an aluminum disposable pan is beyond workable. I'm genuinely enjoying the idea of bringing one to a White Elephant exchange to see what happens.
Somewhat related - if you're already comfortable doing lasagna, this is a rich and delicious variation I tried once. Worth the time, but it needs some side dish to support it, like a salad to break the richness - https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026104-saag-paneer-lasagna
Oh my… thank you so much for that recipe, I don’t have that in my arsenal.
Bookmarked, archived and saved in PDF just in case the internet takes a nap.