Fast to the Table Freezer Cookbook: Freezer-Friendly Recipes and Frozen Food Shortcuts

by Becky Rosenthal

A stocked freezer is a busy cook’s best friend―frozen ingredients are the key to a quick and delicious meal. Make your freezer work for you. If you buy groceries in bulk, discover how to break down your purchases into usable, smaller servings that you can freeze and incorporate into dishes for later. If you love to get your fruits, vegetables, meat, and more from a farmers’ market, but have a hard time eating everything before it spoils, learn how to freeze your produce yourself or prepare meals to freeze. And if you need more of a shortcut,buy frozen ingredients to use for recipes like This is freezer-to-table cooking at its best. 100 color photographs

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking

224 pages, Hardcover

First published August 22, 2016

Reviews

[John’aLee · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice addition to my ‘Freezer Cookbook’ collection.

[Ricki · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author's style of cooking is a lot like mine. My favorite part were the recipes at the back for sauces and seasonings that you can freeze in ice cube trays and add to dishes. I took photos of a few of these recipes (is that stealing when I don't want to buy the whole book?). I admit I only made one recipe from the book (butternut squash and apple soup) and it was decent but I wouldn't make it again. Still... I really did like the book. Also the part about preserving big garden harvests. Someday I want to have a big garden and get this book from the library again.

[Ligaya · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read a bunch of freezer cookbooks, as well as regular cookbooks in general, and this one is just okay. (My favorite is It's Always Freezer Season.) There's a section that explains the basics of cooking for the freezer but since I knew that info, I was looking primarily at the recipes and nothing jumped out at me as particularly interesting. Photos are attractive, but I would have liked them captioned, and the book seems well organized. Just not for me.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The recipes in here are great- a wonderful mix of healthy, flavorful and adventurous. I wish there were more bulk recipes, so you can really plan on freezing a couple of the meals at a time, and some of them are planned that way, but not most. Most of them would feed our family of five only once, so it just takes more planning to double it :) great meals though!

[(a)lyss(a) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a recipe book about making freezer meals.

While there's variety, overall I wasn't wowed by what this book has to offer. However the strength is there is a whole section on the basics of freezing meals and different techniques and how to blanch and other things you may not find if you're just looking for recipes online.

[Rita (RitaReadsTrash) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This cook book just felt so familiar... like my style of cooking! I seriously want to try nearly every recipe in this book! I have already made strawberry rhubarb jam, frozen spinach from my own garden, and made the spinach chickpea chicken curry in my first week with the book! My copy is already filled with notes and thoughts and lists of recipes I plan to try. I'm so excited to stock my freezer!!

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great cookbook for an average cook making food for their family. I'm already familiar with freezer cooking, and thought this author explained things well and made the process seem accessible to anyone who wants to work on stocking up on freezer meals.
Definitely recipes that I will try and seems mostly like food my kids would enjoy.