Freezer Meal Review #1

Yes you are seeing this correctly.

I am posting two days in a row.

Go me!

Right before school started, I spent loads of time on Pinterest researching freezer meals, planning for freezer meals and making freezer meals.

I am not going to lie; it feels awesome to spend a total of 5 minutes working on dinner each night.

However, I was pretty apprehensive about some of the recipes.

Mostly recipes that my husband found.

A friend of his posted some freezer meals she makes, and David really wanted some of them.

After two very disappointing meals, I announced that she eats like crap and I don't trust her food judgement.

I am not going to post about meals I hated. That is what the comment section of those blogs are for. I want to use this post to show off some really good recipes I have made from my own recipes and from ones found on the web.

On to the review!

I have always enjoyed chicken pot pie. 

However for me growing up chicken pot pie came in boxes that looked like this:

The days of boxed chicken pot pie are OVER thanks to this recipe.

It is super simple to put together and freezes really well.

The only things I think I will do differently next time are:

1. Do 2 jars (4 cups) of gravy.

2. Add one more pie crust to the top... I have a crust problem. I am looking into rehabs.

Let me tell you about how easy it is to put together:

Step 1:  3 days before you cook the meal, pull filling and pie crusts out of your freezer to thaw (our fridge takes forever to thaw something)

Step 2: Come home from work starving and tired. Pull out freezer meal and pie crusts.

Step 3: Put one pie crust on the bottom of a baking dish. Put the filling on top of that. Put another pie crust on top of that.

Step 4: Pop that stuff in the oven to bake for 40 minutes and plop yourself on the couch for a moment of peace before the other inhabitants of your house realize you are resting and need you.

Step 5: Eat. Go to bed happy.

You totally need to try this recipe. It has already been requested for next month.

(Did you know you can follow what I am cooking on pinterest?)

Let's Catch Up

Oh man.

I am so glad the last few weeks are over.

I am going to take this all the way back to August 8th.

This summer my school had the asbestos removed and the floors redone. 

Basically we were unable to get into the school all summer.

On Friday, August 8th we got the call that we could come back! 

I skipped all over the new floors to get to my new room.

Only to find it full of cafeteria tables.

Whomp Whomp.

On Tuesday they got the tables out of my room, and I went to town on all the boxes.

Did I mention this was my second year in a row taking over a class for a retiring teacher?

Yeah. Let's talk about teachers.

We are hoarders. 

No.Joke.

I have an obnoxious amount of paper clips too.

This was the first standardized test I took.

FLOPPY DISKS?!

Anyway. My room was no where near being ready when inservice started the Monday after school opened, and some how the keys to my file cabinets went missing. I may or may not have skipped going to lunch Monday with my peers to sit in my room and cry.

I rallied though and by Monday, August 25th my room looked like this:

Ignore all the unpacked boxes and broken down boxes. Our ESL assistant had to go in for gallbladder surgery and hasn't gotten a chance to finish unpacking.

Do you like my bunting?

I am going to have some for sale on my Etsy store soon. YAY!

I will also have some stuff that looks like this:

I love Halloween so much.

When it comes to quilting, I have been having some fun with 9 patches.

The disappearing 9 patch is in Lula Magnolia from Riley Blake. 

To me it just screams Florida.

I would move to Florida in a heart beat.

I am in love with this fabric.

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