Orla Drumgoole

I love my freezer.

In fact, I love all my freezers.

I have three of them, Clare.

Because I grew up in a house with nine children and a working mother.

And so Mammy always had a chest freezer.

And even when she died, this is the terrible thing, when she died, we found some of her tart in the bottom of her freezer.

It had been there a year and we ate it.

Yeah, well, you did because tart freezes really well.

Yeah.

So we have always, I've always grown up in a house with batch cooking and freezing things.

And I suppose as the years have gone on, I've kind of tried to

be more mindful and not throw everything out.

So nowadays, I freeze everything.

Like if I have a lemon and I'm going on holidays, you can throw that into the freezer because... Oh, really?

Yeah, wash the skin before you put it in and then you can zest it straight from the freezer.

You can put it into the microwave and you get fabulous juice from it.

That's a great idea.

Oh, it's absolutely fantastic.

I used to zest it and I used to grate it and put it in.

And now my sister said to me, why do you grate it first?