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Showing posts with label broth. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Bone Broth

When trying to make room in the big freezer I saw that I had saved not one but two bags of turkey carcass bones. It was time! Into the covered large pot they went with water to simmer from 10am to 5pm yesterday. Then, after dumping the bones into the colander, the hot broth was returned to the kettle and then placed outdoors on the gravel-covered dirt floor in the carport with a crate over it. The crate was to discourage critters from getting burned. Yeah, them trying to get into it is more like why it was covered when set out overnight to cool. I did that because this morning I brought it in and removed the thin hard fat layer easily. 

After chopping three large carrots, three large stalks of celery and one medium onion, the broth was brought again up to a boil and I put in half a box of Uncle Ben's whole grain brown rice. A slow simmer of about an hour with some garlic powder, salt, pepper, bay leaf and poultry seasoning caused an aroma that was really nice in here. Of course we then had some for lunch. I had to cool it all down again somewhat before bottling in my quart plastic jars for the freezer, leaving head space. It really was worth the effort. You cannot buy bone broth vegetable soup in the grocery store. 

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Saturday, December 1, 2018

Pete and Repeat

I do this every year! Making split pea soup is quite simple and we sure do enjoy the end results. The first ham bone has been simmered for an entire day and then strained out with the broth set aside to have the fat come up to the top for skimming off the next day. (We will have another ham bone soon as our daughter is saving hers for me.)

This year I put the kettle of broth outdoors with a milk crate covering it and the heavy 5 gallon gas can setting on top of that! Critters abide in our woods, don'tcha know! In fact, I saw four large deer browsing behind the cabin this very morning. There also was a "funny" noise in the woods during the night. I think it might have been an owl.

The end results after simmering and stirring often was a yield of about 2 1/2 qts. of very tasty soup for freezer storage. Of course that doesn't count the lunch bowls and it was GREAT!
On another note, I was pleasantly surprised to see a photo that I had submitted to our regional news station be shown in the usual Friday night video clip. Good thing I had the camera ready and got a shot of it right from the dining room table! The 2nd picture here is a screen shot I took of my photo while watching a rerun on the computer.

To see the actual presentation click on the link below. There is a wonderful picture of an eagle taken by a local lady who gets incredible nature shots.