Bone Both Recipe

  What do you do when one of your friends freezer dies and she asks you if you'd like to take some bones off of her hands?  You do a happy dance and make bone broth!

  

   In case your a newbie to broth and stock in general, I'll give you a quick run down.

Broth

Typically cooked with meat in it.  Cooked for much less time than time than it's cousins stock and bone broth.  Great in a pinch when you have a hankering for some homemade soup, but have no broth in a tetra pack conveniently stashed in the pantry.  Cook time is only 1 to 2 hours.

Stock

This is what your making when throw those leftover chicken carcasses you've been saving in the freezer, into a pot.  The cook time on stock is 4-8 hours,  If you throw this on in the morning, you'll have some delicious flavorful stock to make dinner with.  

Bone Broth

Bone broth is a whole different thing from regular broth, in fact I wonder why it's not called Bone Stock because they have more in common.  Regardless.....bone broth is the emperor of them all!  This is where you want to throw in some of the stranger parts.  Joints, chicken feet, but if that freaks out out, don't fret, the weird stuff isn't essential.  It is more nutrient and gelatin rich, which is why they are recommended.  Another thing that sets bone broth apart is the fact that you add apple cider vinegar.  This is necessary to break down those bones and draw out all of the good stuff we're after.

The cook time on bone broth is MUCH longer.  Were talking 24 to 48 hours.  This is the stuff you want if your looking to do some gut healing!  Bone broth is my bff.

Where on Earth Do you Find Bones

Here's my list of ideas.

1.  Find a local farmer that does farm gate sales.  I've picked up bones from my local lamb supplier before.  They were quite inexpensive, although I can't quite remember exactly what I payed.  $5 for a small bag?

2.  Save those carcuses.  They're just fine to use, We buy turkey on the cheap when it goes on sale for less than $1 per pound, and I make bone broth with the carcus afterward every time.

3.  Talk to some local butchers.  Call around.  You might even get them for free.

4.  Do you have a friend that hunts?  Ask them if it would be possible to get some bones when they have an animal butchered.

I'm not looking to reinvent the wheel, just to share my experience, So here are some links to a few fabulous resources that go into much deeper detail of the topic.

1.  Again......Wellness Mama.  My health guru.

2. And a great article from Nourished Kitchen.

Bone Broth Recipe

Because the cook time is so long, what I do is cook it in a roaster in my oven, but you can use a stock pot, or even a crock pot.  Just as long as it's getting that full cooking time.  Please note that these numbers are for a roaster or large stock pot.  If you are using a crock pot or small stock pot, you might want to to halve these numbers.  But it's all about personal taste, so do what ever makes you tick.  On to the recipe!!!

Bones, however may will fit comfortably into your cooking device comfortably

2 Medium Onions, peeled and quartered

3 Stalks of Celery, washed and cut into 4 " chunks

2 Carrots, large, cut into 3 inch cunks

4 Bay Leaves

1 Tbsp Peppercorns

1 Tbsp Himalayan Sea Salt

4-6 Cloves of Garlic, smashed and peeled

Apple Cider Vinegar (1/4 cup for a roaster size batch, 2 Tbsp for a crock pot sized batch)

Roaster Directions:

1.  Place all of the ingredients in your roaster

2. Heat oven to 350 F, and cook for 2 hours

3.  Lower heat to 200 F and cook for the remainder of the time.

* note -  my oven will automatically shut it's self off after a certain amount of time, so I just shut it off and turn it on again before I go to bed.

You've taken your broth out of the oven and it smells AMAZING!  Am I right?  What to do with all that all that wonderful bone broth?  Some people keep in the fridge and drink it, but that's not how I roll.  I usually make soup with mine.  The simpler the better.  Do you have a beef broth?  Try barley or lentil soup.  Turkey or chicken?  I usually stick with good old fashioned noodle soup.  Onion, carrots (reserved from broth), leftover chicken, tons of garlic..........   Let your imagination go crazy!

Happy brothing!