Christmas Preparation – Freezing Parsley

Well, I can officially say that it’s started.

If you DO NOT like preparing for Christmas in advance in order to save time, money and have a GREAT DEAL OF FUN ALONG THE WAY then this is not the website for you, I’m afraid. It’s important to me to avoid wastage wherever I can and over the next few weeks and months if I’m doing anything towards my prep for the most wonderful time of the year I will share it with you. This includes showing you my Christmas craft and gifts projects as soon as possible to give you guys, all very busy people I know, a chance to have a go at some of them if you feel the urge.

But as a green and gentle segue in to the beautiful and freaky world of organization let me show you my parsley.

I have a plethora of parsley (not something I get to say very often) and it was beginning to flop. Parsley is a wonderful ingredient in stuffing. The type of stuffing that goes very well in a free range organic turkey around the 25th of December.

I cut it all out of my potted herb garden which sits outside the back door. I washed it, picked off any crawlies and blotted it dry with a tea-towel. It was then divided in to two small re-sealable freezer bags and sent off to be frozen until it is needed once again.

The parsley I planted all those months ago at the start of the summer will now continue to serve me well right through until the end of the year.

Nice one.

Let me state once again that before long the Christmas floodgates are going to open around here. We’re still going all out for Halloween, Apple Week and everything in- between but in amongst all of THAT cosiness will be my own personal Christmas prep.