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Liquid Nirvana: Slow-N-Easy Chicken Stock

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by Holly Hickman on 02/18/2010

Alrighty.  The other day we grabbed half an hour and created a light and lovely chicken broth.  This weekend, when you’re lolling around in your pjs, sipping tea and reading the papers online, consider starting up a chicken stock. It’s stronger than broth, more flavorful, and will act as a beautiful flavor base for everything from soup to vegetables to meat sauces.  Chicken stock smells divine, extracts the nutrients from the bones and leftover meat and is a way of respectfully (and frugally) using the whole animal.  And it’ll make your kitchen smell like your grandmother’s.  Or, at least, like someone’s grandmother’s.

The recipe is simple: cover bones with water.  Simmer.  Wait.  Strain.  Refrigerate.  Next, I’ll walk you through it, and we’ll even talk about that hussy Anna Karenina…
Come hither, Vronsky…

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Have you ever had soup or grains or sauces made with real chicken stock or broth?  Not the stuff that comes in a cube or a box or a can.  No, I’m talking about refrigerated stock that’s so thick you could cut it with a knife and mistake it for Jello.  Or a broth so light and chickeny and sublime in its flavor, you’d think you were eating at a restaunt.

This is beautiful stuff that a ten-year-old could make. It is also nutritious and far more economical (and much tastier) than the chemical cocktails that you’ll find at most stores.  Never made it before?  Worry not.  It’s as easy as making tea. And now is the perfect time to try it; nothing chases away Old Man Winter with such aplomb.  Today we’ll do broth. You don’t have to babysit it.  It takes about 30 minutes and needs only 4 ingredients.  And it’s splendid.
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A Subscriber Special Today

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Hello, loves!
Auntie Holly is hard at work  on the Grocery Store Podcast, thus today’s post is wee.  But!  I’m sending you some flowers here (from the Boulder Farmer’s Market).  And, at noon Eastern, subscribers are getting a fun little breakfast recipe that’s sure to rouse the kids.
I’ll be back tomorrow with more Weekend Happy.  And [...]

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Mamey: One-ingredient ice cream from the best fruit you’ve never had

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Before we get to the fun part, remember that I’m currently working up a podcast that, if you’d like, you can take to the grocery store.  Want to know which brands give you the biggest nutritional bang for your buck?  When to go organic and when, if constrained, you can let it go?  Which commercial yogurt comes closest [...]

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Six(teen) Impossible Things for Breakfast

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Looking for some quick, nutritious breakfast ideas? Look no further, mateys!

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Get Cooking — Healthy Breakfasts – Two-Minute Omelet au Moulin Rouge

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Luscious one! Here’s a breakfast (or lunch, or dinner!) so good, it’ll make you want to do the can-can. Detailed instructions for the omelet-flipping-phobic included. Allons-y!

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