Sunday, January 30, 2011

Chicken broth

Well it has been a while since I have posted. I am not so good at taking the pictures, so I really hope you still are able to enjoy the recipes  :)

 So I love to have money. So to help do that I make my own chicken broth.  I got a whole chicken cut up cheap at the store.  So i placed it in a stock pot  with 2 stalks of celery,2 cloves of garlic, 5 small carrots, an onion cut into big chunks, some  bay leaves , salt and pepper.  Then covered it with water, and boiled it till the chicken was falling off the bones.  Once it was done I placed the chicken into a boil, removed the veggies, and strained the broth through a cheese cloth or flour sack, into a mixing bowl.  The flour sack/cheese cloth is wonderful for removing all the yucky stuff that the chicken leaves behind on the flour sack and not in your broth :)
I then put the broth in pint size containers and waited for it to cool and then placed it in the freezer. That one chicken saved me lots of money in broth and is so much better for us with out all of the preservatives and sodium.




So have fun saving money and getting healthy.. flu season is the perfect time to use up this broth :)