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Farm Kitchen:  Can you freeze potato and pasta salads?  |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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 Posted - Apr 23 2013 : 08:34:19 AM
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I want to make huge batches of cool dinner foods for the heat of summer, and I would like to know what freezes well?
I've frozen rice salads and before hand froze them when the were just cooked and still moist and then long let them slow thaw they've come out ok, not best but edible.
So, I'm mostly looking into which summer foods can be frozen? Any tips would be most welcome! 
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Annika
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
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tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
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Posted - Apr 23 2013 : 08:52:07 AM
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no, potato does not freeze well, they and pasta will turn to mush when thawed, sorry...
"Knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad" |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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MagnoliaWhisper
True Blue Farmgirl
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Heather
Haysville
Kansas
USA
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Posted - Apr 23 2013 : 09:18:16 AM
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actually a lot of people love pasta after it's been froze...I have never had it turn to mush. BUT, mayo doesn't freeze well at all....actually sam's used to sell a frozen pasta salad (had the veggies, beans, pasta, etc) but you added your dressing to it after it defrosted.
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
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tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
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Posted - Apr 23 2013 : 09:19:03 AM
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yes, I learned the hard way,lol...did what you want to do, froze it all, then thawed for a big barbeque, then had to make fresh really fast
"Knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad" |
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AlyssaMarie
True Blue Farmgirl
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AlyssaMarie
Palouse
Washington
USA
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Posted - Apr 25 2013 : 09:47:40 AM
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I know this isn't the freeze ahead option you were thinking of but in the summer I've had luck with cooking a really big batch of potato salad, pasta salad with a vinaigrette dressing or tabouli on one day and having it last for the better part of a week in the fridge so we could eat it all week. If you aren't able to freeze it, maybe that would be a plan b option.
AlyssaMarie @ Link'd Hearts Ranch
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Can you freeze potato and pasta salads?
