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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

All the Frozen Burritos

I saw one of those gif-recipes (where they show you all the steps with text over top of it to show you amounts and ingredients) for making your own burritos to freeze, and how to reheat them. So I decided we needed a freezer full of burritos.



This took TIME. I should have been patient and waited until the weekend, but I wanted burritos for dinner last night so I did it all together. And Birk helped.

Obviously, the ingredients are interchangeable, but this is what I did. (And we had lots of other great ideas, but we'll try more things next batch.)

Ingredients:
two onions
two green bell peppers
two avocados
twenty tortillas (medium size?)
shredded cheese
mushrooms (a large box of them)
four eggs (should have made more)
two potatoes
bacon
spices
leftover white beans

The order doesn't really matter, but I cooked everything separately. I made the bacon in the oven (400F; 20 minutes) first, while I cleaned up the kitchen and prepped the potatoes. Then I tossed the potatoes in a little bit of oil and I put them in the oven. (Small dice; 375F; about 35 minutes.)

I made the onions, peppers, and mushrooms all the same way, but separately (same pan, but one at a time): dice, saute in a little bit of butter, salt and pepper.

I reheated the beans in the microwave, and sliced the avocados.

Once all the veggies were done being sauteed, I used the same pan to scramble a few eggs.

After we made/ate burritos from all that for dinner, we put together a bunch of different combinations. Eggs, potato, or beans were the base for all of them (except the last one, which used up the last of the avocado, onion, and bacon, since we ran out of everything else already).

The gif-recipe said to roll them in parchment paper and label them, then put a bunch in a big Ziploc bag and put them in the freezer. Well, one oversight on my part: we don't have big Ziploc bags, only sandwich-size. So I used cling-wrap instead, and crossed my fingers that it worked just as well. (This remains to be seen.)