Just Call Me Suzie Homemaker...

[leobrat]

Does anyone have any particularly good stock recipes (i.e. chicken stock, beef stock, vegetable stock, etc.)? I'm...not very comfortably with buying the boxed or canned stuff any more. It's all way too salty. Am I officially the most boring person you all know?

Comments

[abvj]

haha if I cooked, like at all, I'd help you out... but I don't. At all. That's why I married Wes.

How is your weekend going, miss?

[leobrat]

Hey you! My weekend's going good. Being kind of a bum. How're you?

[hope27]

Posts like these are why you are definitely NOT boring!
:)

[leobrat]

Haha, lies!

[icyrainbow]

Wish I could help but so far all I ever do is buy the stock. I'm lucky if I can cook the basic things and usually its with the help of a crock pot. lol

[leobrat]

Stock is actually a pretty easy thing- you just boil all the ingredients together, then let it simmer for a couple of hours, and then strain it. It's a good thing to have on hand.

[honeymink]

Rapunzel makes unsalted vegetable stock cubes. Other than that, there's a book called "The Voluptuous Vegan" that has some great vegetable stock and soup recipes.

As for meat... I know that my mum mainly cooks bones of ducks with a bit of meat on for hours and hours. Same goes for fish. Adding water and some cooking vegetables like carrots, parsnips and celery (the turnip not the stalks).

[leobrat]

Parsnips? Now there's an interesting idea...I will try that the next time.

[zaftig_darling]

For beef stock, I roast the soup bones in the oven at 300 for about 30 minutes. Then take them out and boil them for about 5 minutes, then simmer for an hour, then strain. (My husband is a teacher in a rural district, and we buy 1/4 of a steer from his students every six months or so. The steers come with soup bones, but you can get a soup bone at the store, or if you've had a cut a meat that come with a bone, you could use that.)

I make most of my chicken stock from those store bought rotisserie chickens. After you eat meat off the chicken, put the carcas in a big pot and boil it for a while, then simmer for an hour, and strain.

I usually divvy the stock up into 1 cup freezer bags and freeze the stock until I need it.

Hope this helps!

[leobrat]

That's a good idea to roast the beef bone before boiling it, thanks!