Ipsa Provisions, headquartered on Frost Street in Williamsburg, will change the way you think about frozen meals. Ipsa puts great ingredients in dishes that are made to reheat without fuss, like a warming kimchi stew with rich grass-fed brisket, crisp-tender bok choy, and chewy, bias-cut ovals of Korean rice cakes. No mushy vegetables. No little baggies of portioned ingredients. No rush to consume the food because it can sit in your freezer until you need it. Bonus: Clear instructions on every package and they deliver throughout NYC. Full disclosure: Before I got sick, the folks at Ipsa sent me some food to potentially review here, and having a freezer full of hearty, easy-prep, deeply flavorful food was a total godsend when the exhaustion set in.

Ipsa just launched a new line of kid-friendly fare (pictured above) in collaboration with Kid’s Table, including a few items that I think should be a staple of any grown-up fridge. The tasty, crunchy-crusted za’atar chicken tenders were wasted on my picky children but made an excellent salad topper for me. My kids loved the bite-sized, yummy, doughy pepperoni pizza cups, which would also make an elevated late-night snack, like a pizza pocket for a pizza snob. They also offer super-delicious frozen pizzas from Pies Upstairs, the pandemic-born pizza business based out of a Crown Heights apartment that generated a thousand-person wait list. Besides stocking my own fridge, I’m looking forward to gifting some frozen food to friends going through rough times.