On 3/20/2022 at 8:17 PM, Smithy said:As to freezing: we often divvy the leftovers into containers and freeze them as complete dinners when we're at home. The usual rule is to mash the potatoes before freezing, because the texture of boiled / roasted potatoes suffers from being frozen unless they're mashed. (This is wisdom he picked up from the writings of Calvin Rutstrum.) That said, I don't think we've frozen such dinners since we adopted the diced potato approach. We suspect that the wisdom applies to larger chunks of cooked potato, not the diced potatoes we have taken to and you show in your picture.
I did freeze several portions of this along with diced potatoes and some frozen peas/corn and it all came out really well. I did add a bit of pork gravy (from a powdered mix) to the meat and the potatoes. This was another good choice for us to pull out of the freezer while our kitchen was being torn-up/rebuilt. Really handy to have these on hand as they only needed a short while in the microwave and dinner was ready!
