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Homemade Chicken Stock - Feast Your Eyes

Posted Sep 18th 2009 10:00AM by Alexa Weibel
Filed under: Feast Your Eyes

Photo: Elana's Pantryl, Flickr.

Ruining the flavor of an entire dish with overpowering canned stocks is a preventable tragedy. Instead, save money (and the dish!) by making your own using little more than a leftover chicken carcass.

Flickr user Elana's Pantry created this standard Gluten-Free Roasted Chicken Stock recipe by roasting a few vegetables (onion, garlic and carrot) then adding them to a pot of water with the carcass and herbs (parsley, bay leaves, thyme and celery leaves) and simmering the concoction for a good hour. She then strained them into these mason jars for attractive storage. Feel free to adjust the herbs to taste when making your own, which will keep well in the refrigerator for extra flavorful sauces, soups and more. They're even flavorful enough to be sipped on their own.

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Cheater's Chicken Soup for a Snowy Day

Posted Mar 2nd 2009 3:05PM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Soups/Salads

Most of the east coast has been getting walloped by snow and rain since sometime over the weekend (it started last night here in Philly). While it hasn't closed down the city entirely, schools are closed and lots of folks are working from home instead of facing the messy commute. My office is pleasantly quiet, with about half the staff at their desks.

During a snowstorm, there's nothing I like to eat for dinner more than a big bowl of soup. However, since I'm working today, there's no time for a pot of something long-simmered. So tonight, I'm going to make a batch of cheater's chicken soup. It's nothing more than a bunch of sauteed veggies that then get simmered in boxed chicken stock. When it's bubbling nicely, I drop in pieces of thinly sliced chicken breast and let them quickly cook in the broth. Last, I toss in some cooked pasta or rice for a starch and call it dinner. It's fast and tastes good. What more can you ask!

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Which Chicken Stock to Choose?

Posted Jan 23rd 2009 9:00AM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: On the Blogs

kitchen basics natural chicken stock box

Chefs say that canned or boxed chicken stock is an abomination and that you're better off just substituting plain old water instead. However, what's a home cook to do on those occasions when you want something more than water (even if it's fresh, nicely filtered H2O) and you used up the last of your frozen stock when you made risotto a week ago?

Over at Serious Eats, Michele Humes has done the research, tasting and testing every canned or boxed stock in her local market, trying to determine which are a doable substitute for the real thing and which are better left on the shelf. She found that the all-around winner was Kitchen Basics Natural Chicken Stock. To see all her winners and losers, check out the full post.

Freezer Funny Business

Posted Jan 14th 2009 1:04PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Science

Alright, Slashfoodies. I have another strange occurrence for you to explain, one that makes the butterscotch cookie mishap seem like nothing -- one that makes me wonder if I've stepped into the kitchen version of the Twilight Zone.

Above, you can check out a slightly blurry (sorry!) picture of my freezer. Since I recently roasted up a chicken, I also made myself some delicious stock. The other day, I got to packaging it for the freezer, and threw most of it into three zip lock bags. I stacked them on the base of my freezer, as shown, so that they could freeze flat and then be moved around.

A day later, the bottom bag was hard as a rock, and the other two were merely very cold and jiggly -- no ice. Confused, I rejigged the setup -- the bottom went on the top, and the door was closed. When I checked again, the new bottom one was now frozen, and the other two were jiggly. Aggravated, I took the picture you see above, and then rearranged a bit and moved one of the bags up to the second shelf. As of now, the one jiggly bag is starting to slush and freeze.

What on earth could cause this? It sure isn't thawing -- the rest of the inhabitants are solid. It's not over or under-packing the freezer, because I've done similar before in emptier and more full freezers.

Please solve this mystery and save my sanity!

Tip of the Day: Get the most out of roasted chicken

Posted Nov 1st 2008 9:38PM by Max Shrem
Filed under: Poultry, Recipes, How To, Soups/Salads, Tip of the Day

Do you often make a roasted chicken and have leftovers? One of the best things about roasted chicken is that you do not have to waste any piece of the bird. Find out some quick and easy ways to get the most out of roasted chicken.

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Conserve your food resources by making stock

Posted Dec 20th 2007 8:01AM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Vegetables, Poultry, Recipes, On the Blogs

Have you guys discovered the blog Wasted Food yet? I ran across it about a month ago and it's become of the sites I look forward to seeing pop up in my reader with a new post. It's not always a happy site, in that it is devoted to raising awareness about the amount of food that we, as Americans, waste. But it is always interesting, well-written and helps me look at food from fresh perspectives.

Earlier this week, Jonathan wrote a post about how he made a pot of stock with some leftover chicken bones and a few aging veggies. He decided to make stock because it was one more way in which he could walk his talk and attempt to reduce the amount of waste in his personal food cycle. I thought it was interesting, because I rarely think about making stock as a way to reduce wasted food. I make stock because it tastes good and has the power to improve the taste of nearly everything you add it to. It was nice to be reminded that I was doing something right each time I turn the remains of a roasted chicken into a pot of stock or chicken soup.

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Homemade Chicken Stock - Feast Your Eyes

Cheater's Chicken Soup for a Snowy Day

Which Chicken Stock to Choose?

Freezer Funny Business

Tip of the Day: Get the most out of roasted chicken

Conserve your food resources by making stock

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