Expand Your Garden Produce....Freeze Your Greens

If you are wise enough to plant a garden, then there are ways to expand your food sources.  When you plant many of your crops, there are the green leaves on them which are tasty and healthful.  Such as turnip greens, collard greens, beet greens, even the leaves from broccoli and cauliflower.  The following is a video from Living Traditions Homestead  channel on Youtube.  This family grows their own food and have many ideas on how to preserve them.  This is one of them......

In this kitchen she is using a large pasta pot, one with a straining insert.  You can substitute that for a large pot and use a hand strainer to lift out the blanched greens and place them in a colander to drain.  Its the same effect.  Using ice cubes in the cooling pot will cool the contents quicker but as you see here, she only uses cold water, no ice.

If you want to get more food for your hard work, try this method.  Its fruitful.