Comments | poor_skills: Chicken and Vegetable Broth Makings

kuka_ra in poor_skills

Chicken and Vegetable Broth Makings

Jun 05, 2007 21:26

Ever bought canned/packaged chicken/vegetable broth?
As far as I'm concerned it's a waste of money.

( Here is what I do. )

cooking, food

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cumaeansibyl June 6 2007, 01:38:49 UTC

kuka_ra June 6 2007, 02:18:00 UTC

Thank you. But I use all of my veggies and chicken/meat organic/free-range only, and my local health food store doesn't carry chicken feet and backs separate from chicken. So my choice is eat chicken/meat rarely, use it wisely and not let too much go to waste. The same actually goes for veggies - if you buy and use it wisely, you won't spend too much more on your groceries than if you buy conventional packaged/pre-cooked stuff.

cumaeansibyl June 6 2007, 02:22:34 UTC

aronstale June 6 2007, 01:44:03 UTC

Once in a while its just good to clean out the fridge and make veggie stock.
Its also a good thing to get a few ice cube trays especially for freazing stock. I like having a big bag of stock cubes in the freazer. Its easy to measure how much you need, rather than having a giant container of stock.
You also don't have to spend money on allot of small tupperware containers or something like that. Just a ziploc freazer bag, that you can just keep throwing more stock ice cubes in! :D

And that chicken foot+back idea above? Fantastic. :)

kuka_ra June 6 2007, 02:32:07 UTC

Re chicken feet+back see my comment above.

Re cubes. I don't own any tapperware containers at all. I reuse the containers I buy my nuts and dried fruit in from my local health food store. I find that I have no use for ice-cube size chunks of broth, and belive me I tried. I find that the containers I use fit just over a cup of broth, and hardly ever would I use less than that for just about anything I cook (I do have a big family, and friends come over for dinner all the time).

I find that ice cubes work very well for things like pesto or tapenade, which I only need a little bit of. With broth I tend to need quite a bit to get any benefit of it at all, so in my case ice cubes don't work.

aronstale June 6 2007, 02:41:21 UTC

The 1 cup containers are a great idea, especially since you do have the big family. I tend to think in reference to one or two people.

Re: Chicken/meat - Do you purchase from local farmers?

aronstale June 6 2007, 02:46:39 UTC

I took a peek at your info and saw that you're in Akron? I have relatives in Akron, how funny is that?
Anyway, I poked around a little, and there's a free-range/organic chicken/egg farm in Akron that sells "Soup chickens". They don't have the price for those chickens listed, but I assume they're cheeper than the regular chickens. They might be an interesting place to check out?

http://www.bruntyfarms.com/

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