Freezing Spinach
Our spinach was completely taking over our garden, and so we figured it was about time to bring in a lot of it and freeze it for the fall! I looked up on line to find out how to freeze spinach, and found these directions. Here are the pictures of my freezing expedition:
After I got the water boiling, I submerged my spinach into the water for 2 minutes. Then I took it out and placed it in a strainer and pushed out the extra water. Then I placed it on a tea towel and squished out the water, forming a ball that looks like this:
Once the water was fully squeezed out, I lightly loosened the ball of spinach so that it was a little less "ball-like" in my ziploc bag! I want to be able to grab a bit of it for recipes, etc.
Have you frozen spinach before? What has been your experience? How does your garden grow?
While we don’t have a garden (someday, hopefully!), we do have trouble eating an entire bag of baby spinach before it goes bad, since it’s just the two of us. So this is a good idea! I’m sure frozen spinach would work well to add to smoothies. Thanks for the tutorial!
Comment by Emily — June 25, 2009 @ 8:02 am
Mmmm, I love spinach! We’ll grow some in the fall and I’ll freeze it then. This is about the same way I freeze mine too.
Comment by Lori — June 25, 2009 @ 11:16 am
I ate all that grew this spring…but I want to plant another crop in the fall…and freeze it…thanks for sharing this…I will bookmark it.
Comment by donna — June 26, 2009 @ 11:44 am