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I'm reheating the broth now, added some frozen chicken pieces and more water because you've made my mouth water for chicken and dumplings. What I wouldn't give to have a brother or two here! They love chicken and dumpling soup.
Another favorite grandma made is fried pork chops/ dumplings & cut up potatoes with browned butter poured over them/ applesauce.....yum...
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Homemade Chicken Broth
Costco Rotisserie chickens, = 20+ servings for $4.99 (Soup included)
OP's minivan / camper may need a freezer and a small crock / insta-pot (for when 'plugged-in'). I have found city parks and fairgrounds with live outlets (while on the road), but that is an extra hassle (solar will not be dependable / wattage enough for crock-pot or freezer.).
And I've been doing that for a long time, buying stock. Right now I'm trying to learn how to live as minimal as I can while I prepare for a nomadic lifestyle.
This is something so basic that I simply stopped doing. I don't know why but glad I realized it.
LOL. Not sure how a “ nomadic lifestyle” would allow for making chicken broth. I would think buying a can would be far easier, cheaper, and faster.
LOL. Not sure how a “ nomadic lifestyle” would allow for making chicken broth. I would think buying a can would be far easier, cheaper, and faster.
Lol. Your comment made me smile. I had to look up andmake sure I was in the frugal forum.
Yes, when I am on the road buying broth will be better. Right now there are many things I'm doing to try and really minimize my life. The chicken broth is part of that.
I have so much to learn about minimaling. I thought I was doing it but, every day it seems I learn something new.
Used to make it. Too much trouble for me now. I just buy it. Now, I will use the broth from a chicken when I am cooking chicken pieces and the recipe requires the broth. But if I am making something that simply require chicken broth as an ingredient...definitely store bought.
Adding a few raw pieces of chicken to the mix of cooked bones will improve the broth. But broth made with a cooked carcass is better than no broth.
I LOVE homemade chicken broth, but rarely make it due to the time and effort that it takes (as compared to buying a can or box of broth). There's nothing quite like it.
I feel like an idiot because I haven't been doing it. Gads, take a girl out of Minnesota and she forgets her roots.
Lately I've gotten into baked chicken legs and thighs, and then just casually throwing away the bones. This would never have happened in Minnesota, unless of course you'd gnawed on the bones and put your germs all over them.
No, we raised chickens and used bones, skin and fat and boiled them with onions, garlic, bay leaves and various spices to make into chicken broth.
I don't know why I forgot but this week leg quarters were on sale so I bought a package. I baked two of them and upon eating one I realized what I'd been doing.
Instead of throwing the bones away, I took the edible meat off the bones, threw the bones in a large pot along with 1/2 an onion, garlic cloves, what carrots were in the refrigerator along with celery and that is now simmering. I also took the meat off the second one I had baked and added those bones.
Not only does this create a wonderful broth but the smell right now is giving me beautiful memories of home. Not that I want to go back and I doubt if I'll ever want to see snow again, but it sure brings back good memories.
I boil them with meat right on the bones. It pretty much falls off, and you can strain it and pick off the meat. When we bake a whole chicken I always make soup with the leftover carcass.
So good.
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