Many of you may see this post title, laugh, and say “Leftover wine? What’s that?” But in my house, we never quite finish a bottle of wine, and I hate to throw away what’s left, no matter how little it is. The good news is that your leftover wine doesn’t have to go to waste. You can save it by freezing it.
I pour the leftover wine into an ice cube tray
You can also apply this technique to other leftover liquids, such as lemon or lime juice. Jo often finds herself with several leftover lemons and limes after a party, and rather then let them sit on the counter and rot, she’ll squeeze them and freeze the juice into cubes. She then keeps them in the freezer for future use.
I also store leftover tomato paste
The next time you’re about to throw an extra ingredient away… decide first if you can freeze it into cubes and use it later. If you find a new candidate, we’d love to hear from you about it!
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Ok – this is a really cool idea! I don’t cook with wine much, so I won’t use it for that. But I am forever having leftover chicken stock or lemons, and this is a great way to avoid wasting them! Of course, now I need to actually buy an ice cube tray…
You can also freeze leftover pesto. I like to spray my ice cube tray lightly with a cooking spray (or you can wipe them with a bit of oil) before filling with tomato paste or pesto. It just makes it a little easier to slide them out.
I also freeze my eggs this way around the holidays with all the baking, but every time I thought I had some eggs, either a neighbor borrowed a couple and hubby forgot to tell me, or he ate them. I also wipe just a bit of oil it the trays. I’ve had them in the freezer for up two weeks. Saves time to stop in the middle of mixing to go to the store.
When the lemon tree is in full bloom, there are too many lemons for me and my honey to consume, so we juice them and pour the juice into icetrays. As they freeze, we put the cubes into a freezer bag in our deep freezer. When we make iced tea or lemonade or etc…, we take out our stash of lemon cubes for fresh, yet frozen, lemon juice.
That sounds amazing, Karen. What I wouldn’t give for a lemon or lime tree in my yard!