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I have loads of perpetual spinach growing well, the leaves are large and look lovely. However, there is just too much of it. I need to trim quite a bit back to start fitting other things in, and I hate th eidea of throwing out what I cant eat in the space of a few days. So.... can I freeze it ? If so, whats the best way to go about it ? Should I blanche first, or not ?
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Personally I don't think it freezes very well raw but it's fine when cooked. I tend to put it in meals I've already made up but don't see why you couldn't do it otherwise. Re blanching, I don't do that for anything, find it makes the veggies a bit rubbish and takes too long.
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No it doesn't freeze well at all. Like Alison I tend to use it in meals before freezing - for example I am planning to use it in a tomato-based sauce with courgettes for defrosting when I need it to use as a pasta sauce. You could just steam it and then freeze in little bags for adding to meals/stews when you need it.Comment
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I steam mine - as I would normally do to cook it - and any we don't eat goes into the freezer. I have a silicon muffin tin that I use to freeze it in portions!Comment
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I blanched mine for a couple of minutes, squeezed it well to get as much water out as possible. Chopped it and boxed it. From a large laundry basket of raw I got 4 small boxes in the freezer!!!!!!!!!!!!! but it was fine de-frosted and steamed for a few minutes.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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I find it needs so little cooking to avoid it going slimy that I think freezing it would lead to a panful of green goo (I nearly said snot but I thought that would put people off. Oh, did I just say that out loud?)
It grows so readily that I think it would be better to sow a bit more and find someone with chickens. You could swap bagfuls for eggs!Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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What a good idea Flum! I have tried blanching, squeezing and freezing, but I think it spoils both the texture and the flavour. Much better to incorporate it into something else before you freeze. I do think you're not going to know until you've tried .....Granny on the Game in SheffieldComment
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