Kitchen Curious with Vivian Howard
Your Freezer
S1 • E8 Nov 24, 2025 27m
In this episode, we learn to appreciate our freezers for the workhorses they are. After an explanation of the way her family once used their "locker" to store spoils from the garden and her mom's early version of meal prep, big batches of vegetable beef soup, Vivian shows us how to put together frozen burritos from leftover Mexican take-out. It may sound lame but there is nothing like opening your freezer to find a perfectly tasty lunch made from something you paid for but were likely to throw away. After making the most of our leftovers, we go to the freezer section of Piggly Wiggly with Christine to compare frozen varieties of ingredients with their canned counterparts for sodium and other preservatives. In her church kitchen, Vivian unveils her method for making upside down turkey, veggie rice bowls for her kids' lunch. An easy way to parcel out full meals that save on time in the long run, these rice bowls are a new way to think about meal prep. Because when it comes to food the Fr
