What do you need?
fruit left overs
leftover sauce
freshly made pesto
hummus
passata
lemon juice
lime juice
and other leftovers
Keeping a stock in your freezer is nothing special, always useful if you don't feel like cooking some days. But because we try not to waste anything, we use the same tactic as a preservative. It actually started with one of the mini monsters, he liked to eat pasta when he was a toddler. That is why we froze his sauce - which we made separately with less onion and spices but extra vegetables blended in - in the ice cube tray.
That was a small eureka moment because since then we have been freezing all leftovers of fruit, vegetables, hummus, pesto, pizza sauce, pasta sauce and so on, in neat little cubes. Homemade or store-bought makes no difference to us.Sometimes you buy more fruit than necessary on the market, but that's no problem for us. Blend and freeze, ready. For the kids we sometimes make fruit in funny shapes, the ice cube trays by Ikea go a long way. The kids love it and the work remains the same ;)
Blend,
pour,
freeze.
You bought a whole bottle of passata and you need only one tablespoon? Freeze it and you always have your tablespoon at hand. Do you want to use three tablespoons, also simple, right?
We often make icing, jam or fish and then our recipe needs 1 or a few tea- or tablespoons of lemon or lime juice. So we squeeze the fruit and freeze the juice. Half and whole spoons of lemon juice ;))
Fresh lemons from the market, always too many.
Those lemons we squeeze and then freeze.
Measure the juice, half and whole tablespoons.
So nice, such an efficient kitchen! :)))