Ina Garten, most popularly known as a television chef personality, is considerably a legend within the food, cooking and entertaining spaces. If you've had the chance to watch an episode from any of the 28 seasons of her cooking show "The Barefoot Contessa," then you're more than familiar with the fact that many are themed around elegant, yet easy recipes to serve while entertaining a crowd of guests or of course, her lovely husband Jeffrey. Ina has obviously proven she is more than capable of cooking everything and anything from scratch, but as she would often exemplify to her show's viewers, even she swears by using and buying store-bought ingredients to create shortcuts while cooking.
One of her favorite hacks is a well-stocked freezer of simple products: bread, vanilla ice cream and vodka. Ina Garten fans everywhere can just hear her famously saying, "store-bought is just fine!" The Magic of Freezing Among her three freezer staples, assumably the least shocking but most understandable is ice cream since its a product already found, kept and enjoyed frozen. In many episodes of The Barefoot Contessa, Ina would happily reach for a pint of from her freezer to delicately land a rounded scoop on top of whatever dessert she was demonstrating to make.
There was even a time she created her own make-shift crème anglaise by melting store-bought ice cream to just the right consistency before drizzling it over a brioche bread pudding. Now, bread in the freezer is a practice everyone.
