The Buzz on Loral Lane: Cooking with Company

After many months of talking about it, my sister (Missy) and I, decided to have a co-op cooking session. I’ve done OAMC, by myself before, and at the end of the day, my kitchen and I were a disaster. Cooking with company is much better! Step-by-step, here is how we tackled it.

1. We decided on a list of recipes, done through phone and email conversations.
2. We got together and decided how many of each recipe we wanted for our respective families.
3. Using the lists and recipes, I made a shopping list for our cooking day.
4. The day before our scheduled cooking day I shopped for groceries. That night I also cooked the hamburger, cooked the chicken (in an 18-qt roaster), and made a batch of drop cookies to be frozen (unbaked).
5. The morning of our cooking day, Missy arrived with extra groceries and freezer bags.
6. Assembly line style, we put together meals. She shredded the chicken into labeled bags and I added the other ingredients that were called for in each recipe.
7. We layered the full bags into a box and stored it in my chest freezer.
8. We relaxed with a cup of coffee and dreamed of coming days when all we will have to do for a nice, hot meal, is pull a bag out of the freezer in the morning and pop it into the oven in the afternoon :-)

In just under 2 hours, we put together 14 chicken dinners, 12 ground beef dinners and 4 batched of chicken and broth for soup. Hopefully, later today, I will add some resources for bulk cooking and copies of the planner forms I developed to plan our session.

Kali chopping veggies~