No room!

As the end of November approaches I start to plan all the shopping for Christmas, including food which will need to go in the freezer. I’ve made the mincemeat for the mince pies – it’s in the fridge being fed with brandy from time to time and the jar(s) turned upside down and downside up each week. So my next job is to make the dessert pastry and several trays of mince pies and freeze them till needed, then cook them freshly. The trouble is, the freezer is too full. So today I’ve made minestrone soup using a bag of soffrito which went in there a couple of months ago along with half a dozen others. The surplus soup is going to be frozen until collected by a young friend this weekend, along with the excess tomato soup that went in last week. Yesterday I found a small leg of lamb which is now defrosting in the fridge and tomorrow will be slow cooked with garlic and rosemary, plenty of red wine and some stock, then redcurrant jelly to flavour the gravy. Going slightly off-piste, it’s going to have yet another bag of frozen veggies in there too which I plan to, well, mash, to thicken the gravy. Now I’m going to resist buying bargain packs of anything just so space is conserved. You never know, there might be a pud from M&S which needs to go in too 😉 x