WWYD? Cooked too much of the 'wrong' dinner.

[FerminaUrbinoDaza]

Will it keep until Friday? I fear not, maybe I can freeze it (dish and all)?

I was on autopilot made enough for all of us (2 adults & two toddlers), but DP isn't home until Friday. That's what I get for jigging about with my menu plan and trying to be efficient by cooking while the DC nap. FFS.

It's a sort of fish pie thingy - layer of half cooked sliced potato, layer of courgette, layer of fish and a layer of sliced (fresh) tomatoes, in a cheesy sauce. All assembled (hot) in a ceramic dish, ready to put in the oven later.

Complicating factors are the dish (no idea if it's freezer proof) and the fish which was frozen. I thawed the fish and it's now cooked but possibly not entirely - placed between layers of hot potato and courgette and covered in hot sauce.

We should have been having smoked mackerel with brown rice and salad. The Mackerel needs eating and I don't fancy throwing away that AND 1/3 of the fish pie.

So, WWYD?

Eat your mackerel tonight then cook the fishpie tomorrow and freeze the leftover bit (having transferred to a freezer-proof container after cooking)?

I think you are overthinking it
I would cook it, eat what's going to be eaten, then have the leftovers tomorrow for lunch! failing that pop the cooked, cooled and leftover piece in the freezer. It'll be fine if you thaw it then thoroughly reheat it.

mmmm. Maybe over thinking it. I'd just rather keep it intact as a meal. It really wont be OK in the fridge until friday? 1/3 of a meal just isn't going to get eaten.

I think the oven dish should be OK in the freeze it a Bodum one (apparently) and the one they have on their site ATM is and looks very similar. I'd rather just dump the fresh tomato and shove the rest in the freezer if I can't keep it in the fridge.

Ho hum.

I'd eat it if it had been in the fridge from Tues until Friday, but I thought you didn't want to fridge it :)

Oh, right, fab! In the fridge it goes

Yes, freeze the mackerel, it freezes well. I don't think courgettes and fresh tomatoes do though, they go soggy.

If you want to keep in intact as a meal, then cook it now and then freeze it, and then you can stick it straight in the oven from the freezer on Friday when you want to eat it.

Oh, can I really freeze the Mackerel? That would be grand. Then I can just do fish fingers instead, I feel like I've done my share of proper cooking for today. It's a whole smoked one, gutted but with head, tail etc. Is vacuum packed.

TBH I developed a revulsion for smoked mackerel during my first pregnancy that I still haven't really got over. Would be great to put off eating it for a bit longer, shame it's so damn healthy or I wouldn't buy it at all

x posts Ali. I think I'm going to risk just fridge-ing the fish pie thing raw as all the ingredients (apart from the tomatoes) are cooked already.