Your “BFF” - your best friend … your freezer

In Autumn Planning I talked about filling your oven when it was turned on.

It's a similar principle with your freezer – it's your best friend – it's the keeper of all your hard work and effort but, best of all, with a little thought and forward planning you'll be able to produce your own home cooked food effortlessly and with a certain aplomb – courtesy of your BFF!

It's not just about freezing main meals, it's about freezing virtually everything you make, bake or cook.

As an example, the most recent recipe from “The Little Book of Chocolat” gave us the fridge cake. Quite apart from freezing the biscuits – if you've any left! I mentioned at the time that the remains looked like the outline of a jigsaw puzzle, not to throw away but to box and freeze and that all would be revealed.

I hope you're with me so far, you've already made a batch of the Mascarpone ice cream. Take some of the biscuit pieces, let them defrost and then pop into your mini Kenwood chopper and blitz to a crumb – not too fine that it becomes a dust – you want substance – now known as “biscuit blitz”.

Sprinkle over your ice cream, top with fresh fruit – ideally. Frozen fruits - raspberries, fruits of the forest, cherries - to name but three - are now easily available – another valuable addition to your freezer dessert menu!