Freezing
When you put food items (like berries) into a freezer bag and freeze them, they become one big clump of berries when defrosted. What you want is individually frozen berries so you can remove from the bag the amount you want to use.
1. Berries, Corn, any item you want each item frozen individually: Place berries on a cookie sheet and freeze overnight. Then put individually frozen berries into a freezer bag. I prefer quart size bags. Corn can be cut off the cob with a sharp knife while being stood in a bowl to catch the corn kernels and frozen without any blanching.
2. Pesto, Lemon juice, any soft mass: When there is a lot of basil, you can make your own pesto, which is simply basil, pine nuts, olive oil , garlic and parmesan cheese. Put the pesto into an ice cube tray and freeze overnight. Then pop out the frozen pesto from the ice cube tray and put the pesto cubes into a freezer bag. I love Meyer’s lemons and squeeze them in season and do this same process with them. When you want a couple of tablespoons of pesto or lemon juice, you can easily remove them from your freezer bag.
3. Zucchini can be baked into loaves of delicious zucchini nut bread and it freezes wonderfully well. For a good zucchini nut bread recipe, go to CatherineMollandblogspot.com
4. I make and freeze applesauce in glass jars. The trick to freezing in glass jars and not having the glass jars crack in the freezer is to leave lots of head room in the jar, at least two and a half inches.
5. Tomatoes make great spaghetti sauce, which is easily frozen in freezer bags.
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