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What To Do With The Mystery Meats/Vegges Hiding in Your Freezer

Photo Courtesy This summer, we hit a moment when many bills rolled in due to unusual events. At the same time, I noticed small packages of "mystery meats and veggies" in our freezer. This happened when not all the pieces in the package were used in a previous meal. I had shoved them in a freezer container and forgot to label them.  My chefy daughter and I love to watch the show Chopped . Odd ingredients are put in a basket for the contestants. The chefs then have to make a delicious dish within thirty minutes for the judges. Using this fantastic idea, I randomly pulled out a mystery frozen container and set it in cold water to thaw. Once the meat could be identified, chefy daughter had to figure out what to do using only ingredients we already had in the house. I gave her the whole afternoon instead of the thirty minutes. LOL. As I write this, she is watching an episode on the Internet and shouting, "The idiot!! They should have..." Today's challe...