Freezing eggs?

In article <[email hidden]>, jjmoreta

Quoted message said:

[...] Can induction muffins or scrambled eggs be frozen easily without
destroying their flavor? Ideally I'd love to cook up a huge batch of
various egg dishes each weekend, pop them in the freezer, and then
reheat as needed throughout the week.

- Joanne

Joanne...Google this group for omelettes and quiches. There have been
several threads this year on just this subject. Lots of good ideas.

HTH...

Aloha...Sue

Ignoramus22273 said:

It is outrageous that you have a husband, a kid and have no idea about
food whatsoever.

Woah slow down there. Why are you so hard on this woman? Not everyone
is a born cook, or even develops good cooking skills. She has an idea
"about food", just is not as imaginative about cooking as others.
That's what groups like this are for: the gleaning of ideas and
learning.

Quoted message said:

Really, this needs to be corrected for the sake of all people
involved. You cannot expect to feed a chilc well with zero cooking
skills.

Um, it seems that's what she is already working on, as we speak. That's
why she posted to this group.

I know many people who can barely flip a pancake and yet they manage to
feed their children and husband just fine. And she doesn't have zero
cooking skills, she has enough skills to be able to read and follow
recipes, given that she asked for recipes and ideas.

There are a myriad of foods (not necessarily low-carb) that require
little to no preparation and are still healthy, so the "not being able
to cook" bit really is irrelevant.

The difference is now she is newly on a low-carb diet and is seeking for
ideas that are different than what she is used to. That's what people
do, they ask.

a puzzled Crafting Mom.

Crafting Mom wrote on 7/16/2004 7:54 AM:

Quoted message said:

Ignoramus22273 said:

It is outrageous that you have a husband, a kid and have no idea about
food whatsoever.

Woah slow down there. Why are you so hard on this woman? Not everyone
is a born cook, or even develops good cooking skills. She has an idea
"about food", just is not as imaginative about cooking as others.
That's what groups like this are for: the gleaning of ideas and
learning.

Thank you.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Really, this needs to be corrected for the sake of all people
involved. You cannot expect to feed a chilc well with zero cooking
skills.

Um, it seems that's what she is already working on, as we speak. That's
why she posted to this group.

I know many people who can barely flip a pancake and yet they manage to
feed their children and husband just fine. And she doesn't have zero
cooking skills, she has enough skills to be able to read and follow
recipes, given that she asked for recipes and ideas.

There are a myriad of foods (not necessarily low-carb) that require
little to no preparation and are still healthy, so the "not being able
to cook" bit really is irrelevant.

The difference is now she is newly on a low-carb diet and is seeking for
ideas that are different than what she is used to. That's what people
do, they ask.

a puzzled Crafting Mom.

You've nailed it on the head. I can whip up all sorts of lovely carb
laden dishes like I grew up on, but I guess when it comes to the basics
of low-carb foods I'm a little lost. We've done the low-carb thing
before but we always had problems because of the lack of variety at the
time.

I haven't quite gotten the hang of getting everything done that I used
to with an infant around the house, so for the last several months I've
been resorting to convenience foods when I'm at home by myself. If he
starts crying when I'm in the middle of cooking, do I let him cry or let
the food burn? I'd rather not deal with it. I know there are thousands
of mothers out there that don't have a problem with things like that,
but sadly I'm not one of them (I think I missed the June Cleaver gene).

Going back to this particular post, I never really had eggs growing up
(Dad was on all the various low-fat, low-sodium diets), so I have zero
experience with egg dishes. LOL I never realized you could freeze them
with edible results until I noticed all the frozen scrambled egg
products in the grocery store.

- Joanne

jjmoreta said:

to with an infant around the house, so for the last several months I've
been resorting to convenience foods when I'm at home by myself. If he
starts crying when I'm in the middle of cooking, do I let him cry or let
the food burn?

No worries. As you get the hang of it, you'll learn to balance the
baby's needs with getting a job accomplished. I have 5 children. And
as one becomes more used to parenting it becomes easier to discern which
cries can wait a few more seconds until you switch off the burner, and
which cries are the "drop everything and run" cries.

Being new to parenting and new to balancing the sometimes exhausting
role of mom to a newborn with other things is often quite an adjustment.
Especially if you're breastfeeding. When my newborn went through growth
spurts I had to be at his beck and call... etc.

Ignoramus22273 said:

You do not have to be a great cook like those from food network, but,
the basic stuff is something that at least one person in the household
needs to know how to do. Relying on convenience meals makes it hard to
lose weight, aside from being expensive.

I went through a phase where I relied on a lot of convenience or "easy
to cook foods", when I was breastfeeding newborns. It's temporary, and
not constant. In other words, sometimes an exhausted new mom who was up
3 times in the night feeding the baby would rather open a box of cereal
or spread pb on a piece of bread than cook.

For all the bashing you're doing of this person, I am amazed. Don't you
have a child, yourself? Don't you remember what those first few
physically demanding months were like for your wife?

Give her a break, eh, she IS after all *asking* for ideas.
Give her the actual ideas instead of bashing her for not already knowing
the ideas.

Having a little PMS this morning?

In news:[email hidden],
Ignoramus22273 <[email hidden]> stated
| Not a very good excuse...
|
| you can always turn off the burner under skillet, pot etc, cover it
| and do the baby thing. Not a big deal. Or, if you have an infant, you
| can keep him/her not too fat from the kitchen.
|
| You do not have to be a great cook like those from food network, but,
| the basic stuff is something that at least one person in the household
| needs to know how to do. Relying on convenience meals makes it hard to
| lose weight, aside from being expensive.
|
| i

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

Crafting Mom wrote on 7/16/2004 7:54 AM:

Quoted message said:

Ignoramus22273 said:

It is outrageous that you have a husband, a kid and have no idea about
food whatsoever.

Woah slow down there. Why are you so hard on this woman? Not everyone
is a born cook, or even develops good cooking skills. She has an idea
"about food", just is not as imaginative about cooking as others.
That's what groups like this are for: the gleaning of ideas and
learning.

Thank you.

Joanne, IGNORE Ignoramous (aka filter his posts). I did a LONG time ago, so I
only see replies to him. He's not as bad as JC, but the majority of his posts
are irritating. Reading them leaves a bad feeling, like having low-level
heartburn -- who needs it if it can be avoided?

--
Saffire
205/151/125 - 5'1.5"
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333

jjmoreta said:

Going back to this particular post, I never really had eggs growing
up (Dad was on all the various low-fat, low-sodium diets), so I have
zero experience with egg dishes. LOL I never realized you could
freeze them with edible results until I noticed all the frozen
scrambled egg products in the grocery store.

Scrambled eggs are so fast that I can't imagine cooking and freezing
them in advance would save much time. While a skillet is warming up
with a bit of butter, crack some eggs into a bowl, toss in some
spices, maybe a bit of cream, and stir with a fork. Dump it in the
skillet and push it around a couple minutes until it's done. Ten
minutes max; five once you get good at it.

You could shave a couple minutes off the time by mixing up the eggs
and whatever the night before and putting in a sealed container in the
fridge. That way you could do something else while the skillet heats
up.

Most mornings I'm too lazy to scramble eggs. I put my lard skillet
over the fire, crack some eggs in it, put a lid on, and go read my
email. Several minutes later, I come back, put them on a plate, and
season with salt and pepper. Scrambling is for special occasions.

--
Aaron -- [email hidden] -- 285/225/200

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