OK, I've said it before that I'm a lazy cook. I also try to leave cooking to mom and Art. Why Art? His parents owned the Sweet Shoppe on the Big Island. It was a mom and pop operation. When Art and I got married, so many people came up to me and commented how my new mother-in-law was the best cook/baker on the Big Island. This was rather daunting. I only knew how to make 5 dishes because I shared an apartment with three other girls in college and we were all in charge of cooking dinners for one week in the month.
But I digress.
Anyway, I'm just saying Art watched his mom and he does cook/bake. He used to cook for me before we married. I didn't cook for him which was probably a good thing.
I remember getting a lot of cookbooks from my girlfriends as wedding and shower gifts.
All this is a prelude to something I discovered which you all already probably know.
You can make bone soup which is quite tasty.
During these coronavirus lock down days, I'm always trying to find a way to stretch our food so we don't have to think about what to have for dinner or need to go grocery shopping. We buy rotisserie chicken from Sam's Club or Costco, cut them up and store them in the freezer. I have a good friend I've often passed down the chicken bones to because she makes jook (Chinese porridge) with them.
This time, I thought I'd try cooking the bones myself for about 2-3 hours in water.
Boy that's a lot of broth! But it's very impressive too, good for you Kay. BTW, I like when you digress, I enjoy reading about you & Art's early days. :)
ReplyDeleteChicken carcasses never go to waste here. Add chopped onion a little chicken stock powder and water....boil till residual meat comes off bones....result is fabulous chicken stock plus bits of meat cleaned off the carcass when cooked. Yes it’s messy cleaning the bones of any meat but worth it. I use this stock as the base for other soups, add a couple for packets of quick cook noodles voila, chicken noodle soup!
ReplyDeleteThe bone broth you made looks like it would be very flavorful. I have made bone broth before. The simmering of it was easy, but finding places to put my containers of it after I made it wasn't. We don't have a separate freezer, so I managed to get enough of it into our refrigerator's freezer that none went to waste. I made chicken noodle soup with a big portion of the broth and shared it with my daughter, her husband, and our grandson.
ReplyDeleteThe broth made from chicken carcass is always so much better than you can buy.
ReplyDeleteI don't do much cooking anymore. There's just me and I can get by with just frozen meals.
ReplyDeleteI cooked all the time before my Bob died and then afterward I cooked for my brother-in-law until he began asking his girlfriend to our dinners. After the second time, I thought that was a bit too much. She no longer cooked.
Well done! I don't have the patience to make broth.
ReplyDeletei never throw bones out. i save all of my vegetable scraps in the freezer. when i have a carcass, i throw it in a heavy pot with the scraps, some black peppercorns, bay leaves and herbs and fill the pot with water. i cook it for about 8 hours. to get the best stock, the bones should be falling apart. if your stock doesn't jell when cold, it hasn't been cooked long enough. homemade is best!
ReplyDeleteWhat is more is more appealing nor more daunting than a man who can cook. They just do it better. The great chefs are mostly men.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad was one of those great cooks. He use to make turkey bone soup after Thanksgiving that everyone loved.
Yes, long ago. This week we have a chicken to go in the slow cooker. Maybe I will make a brother from its bones.
ReplyDeleteIt is the tastiest. I haven't done it in a very long time. Two of my sisters are great cooks, us other two not so much.
ReplyDeleteI've never done that, but it's definitely getting to be soup weather around here! I too would rather have my guy friend cook for me; he is creative and enjoys trying out new recipes. I have my limited repertoire which I do prepare for him! You are fortunate to have a great cook in the house.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good base to use. My daughter-in-law got us using quart freezer bags for soup broth and gravies. Lay them flat to freeze, then when frozen you can "file" them like cards in the drawer bin of the freezer. This saves a lot of storage space, and you can date the baggies too. They do that with bulk ground beef, dividing into flattened squares inside a baggie, then freezing. They defrost quicker that way too. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteI do that with my sams club chicken which I agree is great! 😁
DeleteI do that, from time to time. I save up the carcasses of at least 2 Costco chicken in the freezer and then boil them with a few herbs. The last time I did this I put it in the Instapot because it is so easy - but I didn't like the results. It tasted too chalky - I don't know how else to describe it. Perhaps it was over cooked.
ReplyDeleteLuv those Costco chickens, although they're probably too salty to be healthy. We do boil the carcass down sometimes, but not often. It's a lot of time and effort!
ReplyDeleteBone broth is very good for you -- lots of minerals and vitamins and other good stuff that is useful for your own bone health. I like to roast the bones before the boiling for intense flavor.
ReplyDeleteYou're going to become an amazing cook at this age!!! I had lots of carrots in my garden this summer so I'm busy making carrot soup. My recipes come off the internet.
ReplyDeleteI do that with turkey carcasses after Thanksgiving or Christmas, and make the soup right away. We seldom have whole chicken here to save the bones from.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter and son in law do this. No bone has left their house in the last twenty years. I have none to pass on; I skip the meat.
ReplyDeleteI have an instapot. It makes the best bone broth. I store it in freezer bags. You can pull it out, add vegetables and rice and simmer together for a wonderful meal.
ReplyDeleteHi Debby, it’s so nice to meet you. I don’t have an instapot, but I was wondering if it might be fun to get one. I don’t really know how to use it though.
DeleteI have to admit that I would not have one if it had not been a gift. Maybe now that I'm not working, I will have more time to experiment, but to be perfectly frank, I'm not a person who's interested in learning a new way to cook. At least not up to this point. But it does make a good bone broth. That part I know.
DeleteI have heard many good things about the Instapot lately. But I don't think it would entice me to start cooking, when I have such a great partner who does all our cooking. Such as it is, anyway. Homemade soup is so much better than store bought, though! :-)
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