In these homemade ice cream sandwiches, soft, chewy, cinnamon oatmeal cookie bars are layered with a creamy, strawberry-studded, no-churn ice cream for a new summertime favorite. Featuring both fresh and freeze-dried strawberries, the refreshing fruity filling packs more strawberry flavor than your average store-bought pint. To keep things simple, this recipe uses an all-in-one freezing technique that comes from our Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwich Bars.
Super easy mini salmon quiches will be a party favorite. Smoked salmon, cream cheese, and scallion filling in a puff pastry crust are prefect to make ahead and freeze. Great for evening events or brunch!
Classic Aussie fare - a meat pie with a beef filling that's been braised until tender. Great food for parties that freezes extremely well! The great thing about mini pies is that you can make them in pie tins, muffin tins or even cupcake trays! Just make sure to cut the rounds so they fit the tin that you use.
My Gozleme is a quick and easy cheese and spinach lunch option. It’s salty and tasty and freezes really well too!
I keep a stock of mixed seafood in the deep-freeze so I have the wherewithal to make this at a moment’s notice. And you need nothing else with it than some crusty bread to dip into the juices. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
Super easy mini salmon quiches will be a party favorite. Smoked salmon, cream cheese, and scallion filling in a puff pastry crust are prefect to make ahead and freeze. Great for evening events or brunch!
Rich, cosy and comforting, this old-fashioned savoury mince is Aussie comfort food at its finest! It is the perfect meal for busy nights; easy to batch cook and freeze, super versatile and ready in around 20 minutes. And it can be used as a base in a number of different dishes! Serve it over buttered toast, rice or mashed potatoes, or find more variations from the list below.
A juicy spinach ricotta filling encased with buttery, flaky puff pastry. Great finger food or to pop into lunch boxes, thought they are definitely best served warm! Refer to the notes for make ahead instructions and the recipe video below. Some people like to serve this with tomato sauce.
Super easy mini salmon quiches will be a party favorite. Smoked salmon, cream cheese, and scallion filling in a puff pastry crust are prefect to make ahead and freeze. Great for evening events or brunch!
Ditch the packet of shop-bought gingernuts because these biscuits from Mary Berry are simple to make, easy to freeze and too irresistible to stop at just one.
Pierogi, boiled dumplings, are very flexible and can be stuffed with a number of savory or sweet fillings, including potato and cheese (below); sauerkraut, cabbage, spiced meats, and even fruits and berries. Because pierogi freeze well, they make quick, satisfying last-minute meals. There are as many versions of pierogi as there are cooks who love them, and our take on this traditional treat mirrors many American pierogi recipes.
Classic Aussie fare - a meat pie with a beef filling that's been braised until tender. Great food for parties that freezes extremely well! The great thing about mini pies is that you can make them in pie tins, muffin tins or even cupcake trays! Just make sure to cut the rounds so they fit the tin that you use.
Delicious hot or cold, can be made in advance and freeze well, these deliciously seasoned meat patties are massively popular in Germany and Denmark!
Soft, chewy almond cookies with a punch of bright raspberry flavor (thanks to the addition of freeze-dried raspberries!)
A rich, warming beef casserole recipe that's good to prepare ahead or freeze
Check out this recipe for Rosie's Moist Custard Cake! Rosie is a very naughty girl. She loves the word 'Moist', and the word 'Gash'. She is 'THAT' type of person - my bloody favourite type of person! And she makes amazing cakes! This is her delicious recipe for her Moist Cake. In fact, it was
Recipe video above. Pierogi Ruskie's are Polish dumplings filled with cheesy, creamy mashed potatoes served with an onion butter sauce. They are even more delicious than they sound! Traditionally made with quark which is an European fresh cheese which isn't easily found in Australia, so I've used cheddar because I want this recipe to be as accessible as possible to many people to experience the greatness that is Pieorgis!!! More in Note 2.Excellent weekend project – eat some today and freeze some for later (they cook from frozen). Makes a nice big batch of 30 pierogis. For more dumplings of the world - head here!
Authentic Pastitsio, or Greek lasagna ~ layers of pasta, cinnamon-laced beef, Kasseri cheese and béchamel.
The light, crumbly texture of this shortbread from Dorie Greenspan, owes to a clever technique: freezing the dough and grating it.
Strawberry Macaron Shells, the shells are made with freeze dried strawberries, and the macarons are filled with a Strawberry Buttercream for a burst of strawberry flavor!
Our Thermomix Coconut Lamb Curry Recipe is a healthy, budget-friendly dish packed with nutritious spices and superfoods. Gluten and dairy-free, it uses economical cuts of meat for a delicious slow-cooked curry.
Andrea Slonecker demonstrates how to make kolaches with a cream cheese filling and various jams.
Here is an easy gougères recipe that is a real crowd pleaser. Make some to freeze for that last minute get together, or with a salad for a light dinner!
Notes: Fillo (or phyllo) comes in all shapes and sizes these days. The variety I can find, Athens brand, weighs 1 pound and contains two 8-oz bags of 20 sheets each measuring 9 x 14-inches. If your fillo comes in the larger sheets, cut it in half so that it’s roughly 9 x 14-inches. After you cut it, gently roll it up and place it in a ziploc bag.
This classic treacle tart is made all the more brilliant because you can make it in advance and freeze until needed. No time to make pastry from scratch? This lemony treacle tart uses shop-bought sweet shortcrust pastry.
The Best Vegan Bagels are fluffy and chewy, sweet and salty, and super fun to make! Just 6 simple ingredients that you likely already have in your pantry. Making homemade bagels takes a few steps, but every step is simple and the results are so worth it! This is the perfect weekend project, and the bagels freeze wonderfully so you can enjoy them all week long.
Shrimp shumai is a popular and delicious dim sum recipe that is easy to make at home. It's also a perfect recipe make head of time and freeze in batches!
Georgina Hayden’s aromatic lamb stew with aubergines and olives is perfect to make ahead and freeze for busy nights. Serve with rice, couscous or flatbreads and add houmous and dips for a full-on feast. Georgina Hayden is an award-winning food writer, cook and presenter. She developed a love of cooking while growing up above her parents’ Greek Cypriot taverna in London and is influenced by a love of family and her = Mediterranean heritage. Her latest cookbook is the Sunday Times Bestseller Nistisima. Follow her on Instagram @georginahayden You might also love Georgina’s freeze-ahead fishcakes.
I’m sharing my mom’s secret to the softest and fluffiest piroshki (Russian hand pies) with simple beef and rice filling, but you can fill yours with whatever your heart desires.
Shrimp shumai is a popular and delicious dim sum recipe that is easy to make at home. It's also a perfect recipe make head of time and freeze in batches!
This decadent cookie starts with a cream cheese-based dough and whatever filling you can dream up. Honey-walnut or chocolate are good places to start!
Maple walnut shortbread cookies are an easy slice and bake cookie recipe for holiday baking and delicious everyday snacking!
Strawberry choux buns, a seemingly fancy recipe uses simple ingredients and simple methods to blow your minds away. I have recently shared on my Youtube channel all about freezing strawberries and using them in the summers. This recipe is the ideal recipe to try out your preserved strawberries. Plus, even if these strawberry choux buns...
Crispy Chinese chicken dumplings feature a juicy ground chicken filling and are loaded with vegetables. Not only for celebrating Chinese New Year and other festivals, these dumplings are a great weekday snack because you can make them ahead and they freeze well.
Scottish Oatcakes Oatmeal Pancakes, delicious, hearty, healthy and easy - plus you can make them ahead and freeze; even better, they're mixed the night before.
Easy Crustless Lemon Tart is super quick to prepare and totally delicious! You need this recipe in your repertoire! It almost 'smacks' you with the lemon!
These gluten-free savory veggie waffles are a healthy and light breafkast option that can be made fresh or prepped ahead of time. They're packed with nutritious veggies and loaded with delicious flavor!
