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Subject: twice baked potato casserole

Hello, I made a huge twice baked potato casserole.  How do I freeze, tupperware?  Also, what method do you use to rehead?  Any advise would be appreciated.  

bunbun52

bunbun52 : 48w 6d ago

delanna3

delanna3 : 48w 6d ago

I guess if you have tupperware that will fit in your freezer this would work. 
 
personally I put two layers of foil, with long tails, into my regular metal pan (same one I cooked it in)  put everything into the foil, wrap the tails over the top. 
 
wait till it freezes hard, then take it out solid and re-wrap it in freezer paper over all.
 
when you're ready to cook, hold it frozen solid under warm water and gently peel off the foil.  then pop it back into the original pan and put it into the oven at like 325.  something to bring it up slow, not fast to original temp.  also no need to preheat the oven, good to put in cold oven and let it warm.  add an additional 30 min to cook time about.
 
or, micro I guess, but I never use the microwave so no advice on that :)
 

annmartinson

annmartinson : 48w 6d ago

one more thing. 
 
at this point you can make two smaller groups of cassarole (or however many) if you prefer.
 
it is amazing how perfect it looks if you cram leftovers into whatever size container you want and then reheat them that way. 
 
I often take family meal leftovers (which are big) and portion them individually into my husband's lunch-sized tupperware.  then I freeze them and when I take them out, they look like they started in that dish, even though when I put them in there they had all kinds of ridges and breaks and stuff from being transferred by spatula vs. whole.
 
yeah, I'm a bit crazy I guess to even care whether it looks like it was made for the small container, but I like it :)

annmartinson

annmartinson : 48w 6d ago

I've used the foil-wrap freezing method but instead of instantly thawing it under running water, I defrosted it overnight in the fridge. I found out that if I thaw it that way, it needs to be thawed in the pan I will use to cook it. I didn't do this and I had a huge mess in the fridge. LOL you'd think that would be common sense! Thought I'd mention it to spare someone else from my mistake.

laursaurus

laursaurus : 38w 4d ago

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