Making A Rich Broth

Making a rich broth is easy.  It will work with Beef, Pork, Chicken, Turkey, or even fish.  If you prefer you can just use vegetables and make vegetable broth.

Cook your meat and save the bones.  Freeze them for later and make a large amount of broth or make it right away.  The bones you save are the ones that are left from carving(from cooked or uncooked meat), not the ones someone has nibbled on. 

The best way I have found to make broth, is to bake it overnight in a slow 200 degree oven (at least 12 hours) and the end result is a really rich broth.  Add water, bones, celery, onion, garlic, and carrots or whatever kind of vegetable you prefer, season with salt or not.  Then cool the broth and strain it.  Next refrigerate it, when it is cooled and it will be congealed you will see a layer of fat the has accumulated at the top.  I remove that(just carefully spoon it off) and discard it.  Now you can use the broth immediately or break it down into smaller amounts and freeze.  Use freezer containers, or zip lock freezer bags.  Broth can also be canned.  I keep large quantities of broth in the freezer to use to can meat.  I recently started canning meat, to have on hand in case of power outages.  I did intend to have this done before winter, so far we have not lost power this winter, we have been very fortunate.

Use for soups, stews, pasta, gravies, there are several uses for this.  It is handy and flavorful.

Adding To The Harvest

My garden is still producing and today I picked tomatoes, peppers, and dug 15 pounds of potatoes. 

I still have more potatoes to dig.  I will get it all done in between everything else that is going on.

I have a ton of peppers to do something with.  I think it is time to start chopping and freezing them.  I  freeze them on cookie sheets then bag them in small bags.  I use my vacuum system so they keep in the freezer a long time, sometimes I have so many they will last 2 years.

I only cook for 2, but I cook every meal so anything I freeze and pressure can helps with meal planning.  It also saves a lot of money.  Grocery shopping is not my favorite thing to do so I stock up when I do have to go.

My intentions of starting fall cleaning are still there and I am making very slow progress in that area.
I am still in the reorganizing phase right now and am finding several items to be mended.  I am catching that up.

When I do get started cleaning my husband will disappear to his building and to the farm, he hates that time of the year.  I loose him at least two times a year, but he always shows up at meal time.