FYI - This post is for those whom like to find ways to kick up your everyday recipes AND hate wasting food.
Sure you can buy a carton of chicken/beef broth to use for cooking from the store. Why not kick it up a few notches and fully use food you've spent your money on while making it better?
Over the last year, after every PBC cook using various wood for smoke, I save a bag of the leftover chicken/pork bones and a bag of beef bones and leave it out in the freezer until full. Then the next time we go through the fridge and start clearing out veggies that are on there last legs (carrots, half used onion that started to sprout, celery that's a little brown on the edges, etc).
Chop it up. Throw into the Instapot Pressure Cooker. Maybe grab a few herbs from the yard like rosemary, oregano...throw the bones in, fill with water until covered/max line. Let it rip.
BOOSH! An hour or so later, pour the broth through a mesh strainer/colander into a bowl and you have a slightly smokey broth that adds another dimension to soups, sauces, etc.
Now, here's how it can get a whole lot better...
The next time you go to make broth, defrost your already made bone broth and use it in place of the water to make — a broth that puts the broth in brothel.
Well, maybe that's not a good choice of words and does make for a bad visual.
It's damn good.
Sure you can buy a carton of chicken/beef broth to use for cooking from the store. Why not kick it up a few notches and fully use food you've spent your money on while making it better?
Over the last year, after every PBC cook using various wood for smoke, I save a bag of the leftover chicken/pork bones and a bag of beef bones and leave it out in the freezer until full. Then the next time we go through the fridge and start clearing out veggies that are on there last legs (carrots, half used onion that started to sprout, celery that's a little brown on the edges, etc).
Chop it up. Throw into the Instapot Pressure Cooker. Maybe grab a few herbs from the yard like rosemary, oregano...throw the bones in, fill with water until covered/max line. Let it rip.
BOOSH! An hour or so later, pour the broth through a mesh strainer/colander into a bowl and you have a slightly smokey broth that adds another dimension to soups, sauces, etc.
Now, here's how it can get a whole lot better...
The next time you go to make broth, defrost your already made bone broth and use it in place of the water to make — a broth that puts the broth in brothel.
Well, maybe that's not a good choice of words and does make for a bad visual.
It's damn good.
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