#bone broth

[raining-tulips]

Damn I made bone broth and bread in one day? Who am I? The elderly sage who lives at the edge of the wood?!

[sugarcoatednightshade]

Fuck it. I’m gonna teach every one of you how to make a kickass bone broth, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Buckle up losers it’s time to cook.

Step One: do you cook at home? Save the scraps. Even if you don’t cook, you’d be surprised by what counts. The ends of carrots. Onion skins. Garlic peels. The gross parts of celery. Animal bones (chicken wings and thighs, usually). Every time you cook, you’re going to put the scraps into a gallon freezer bag.

Step One B: if you don’t cook, you can buy all of these things. I’d recommend half a stalk of celery, some carrots, and two yellow onions to start with. Don’t bother making it look pretty, include all the skins and gross bits. We’re making stock, not soup.

Step Two: when the bag is full, buy a rotisserie chicken. This part may be superfluous if you’ve saved up enough bones, but bones are your flavor so it never hurts to have more if you’re unsure.

Step Three: peel the chicken. Separate the meat from the bones and set it aside. You can do whatever you want with this meat, but I recommend saving it for the soup you’re gonna make with this kickass stock.

Step Four: add the contents of the scrap bag to the largest pot you own. Add the bones. Add water until everything is just covered or until the pot is completely full. If you want to add whole spices like peppercorns and bay leaves, nows a good time, but it’s not required.

Step Five: put that shit on the stove on low heat. Leave it there until around half the water has evaporated. This will probably take a couple of hours, at least three or four. No need to stir.

Step Six: using a collider (pasta strainer), separate the solids from the liquids. That’s it. Enjoy your delicious and flavorful and nutrient-dense stock, idiot.

Obviously you can use that stock to make soup, but you could also use it to cook vegetables, pasta, or rice. Or you could drink it plain. You could freeze it in an ice cube tray and use it as dog treats.

If you choose to save it in the fridge, you’ll probably notice that it doesn’t stay as a liquid, instead having the texture and consistency of a soft jello or pudding. Don’t panic! It’s just the collagen from the bones aka gelatin. This means you did everything right and let it sit on the stove long enough. Your bone broth is filled with lots of nutrients!

[lightthewaybackhome]

The feminine urge to get excessively excited about your beautiful bone broth.

[biophilianutrition]

🧅🥬🥕🫛🥦🫚🍅

[feministdragon]

Re: bone broth. Will you share your process/fav vegetables/types of bones?

different vegetables you can use for helping break down bones:

literally any leafy green has the magnesium content, but mustard greens are particularly high in minerals and nutrients

the classic eastern style soup base: sliced ginger root and green onion

the classic western style soup base: onions / carrots / celery (celery has silicon which is also great, besides being good for your liver)

then when you're heating up the broth for a meal there's lots of things you can add, one thing that's really convenient is what in english is called 'kelp buds', they're fantastic because they're dried, so I just keep them in a jar by the stove and add it to the broth whenever I heat it up, it makes it super umami and also both me and a friend have found our hair loss reversing after eating them every day over 5-6 months, of course different people are going to experience different results

also can add meatballs, caramelized onions, cooked chicken, water chestnuts, chopped green veggies, tomatoes/raw onions/kelp buds combo, honestly literally any vegetable you have that requires cooking can go it. sometimes I just drop the various things in till they're cooked and take them back out again, like just use it as the cooking medium for a bunch of things, then I have several veggies a meat and a soup for dinner, but i've used the same pot to cook it all.

for breakfast you can drop eggs in to cook in there, then green onions, or chives, or cilantro, or basil, or any green herb.

here's my current broth recipe

here's a book about fats and nutrition

[garlicandzest]

Homemade Beef Stock is so much better than anything you can get at the store. This beef stock recipes uses roasted beef bones with a mirepoix of vegetables for a velvety smooth stock that’s rich and flavorful.

[ruthlesslistener]

Tried my hand at making beef bone broth today! Never made it before, so I have no idea how it'll taste, but I threw onions, rainbow carrots, garlic, celery, dried parsley, pepper, salt, bay leaves, and a splash of dried basil in along with the knucklebones, which gives me high hopes. It sure does smell delicious, though after 10 hours of it permeating my small apartment, I think I'm kind of over the scent of it by now ^^;

[video-recipes]

Pastina En Brodo — lucysallysommer

[fosters-hoe]

beautiful findings

[emnexxtdoor]

Bone broth when I'm not feeling 100 (costco brand slaps)

[certifiedceliac]

Mushroom, Bacon, and Cauliflower Casserole (via Do You Even Paleo)

[lightthewaybackhome]

A cold chill blusters in, reminding us all that winter hasn't quite had her last laugh yet. I water plants and pull some back into the dark warmth of the garage. It's not spring just yet.

The tulips I bought are opening! They bring such cheering beauty to the day.

My bone broth simmers on a back burner, my cauldron of magical goodness, filling the house with warm smells. I mixed my first echinacea tincture today. Now, to hide it away in the dark for a few months.

It was just such a cozy homey day. Kinda the best.

[feministdragon]

there's a certain kind of article on the internet that pisses me off so badly. it's written by a person with a surface-level understanding of the topic and little-to-no personal experience, who collates a few sources and then litters the information highway with yet another piece of trash

today's trash article is a discussion of bone broth.

my position on bone broth is that it has personally done a lot for my physical health, energy levels hair, skin and nails. but it matters a lot HOW i've been doing it. first, i've been cooking it myself, from organic bones, and with alcohol and certain kinds of vegetables, which increases the breakdown of the bones and release of nutrients in the water. second, I have been eating Mass Quantities, that is 1-2 bowls a day, with seaweed and other vegetable nutrients added, for almost 2 years now. the level of healing i've experienced is directly. proportional. to the amount and quality of the broth.

so it can help you. but you have to use quality ingredients, and invest time and energy into cooking it right, and you have to eat A LOT. and yes, many people don't have the time, resources and money etc, of course! so of course this can't help people who don't have the time, resources, money etc. this is not a cure all.

what makes me mad is the stupid black and white thinking the internet is prey to. like, if not everyone can benefit, then NO ONE can benefit. if vegans and vegetarians cannot benefit, then NO ONE can benefit. if poor and under-resourced people cannot benefit, then NO ONE can benefit. (the biggest of eye rolls)

and like, yes. people who don't beleive in eating animals exist. people with lack of access to resources exist. I feel a lot of compassion for both of these groups, but I can't! do anything! about their concerns! does that mean I am not supposed to share a method that CAN work for SOME people?

I myself am a former vegetarian. I've discovered that vegetarianism, combined with overwork and a lack of sleep, fucked my health right up. Do you know what I've found that fixed that? fucking bone broth. Is abandoning vegetarianism right for you??? maybe not! is bone broth right for you?? maybe not!! and that's okay!

so but, along comes this article which apparently is a gotcha about that bone broth is useless. which, if it were actually sourced from actual studies about actual bone broth, I might consider its arguments.

but you know what it actually argues?

that a) collagen supplements provide more and better collagen than bone broth, and b) you need the minerals from vegetables to make them available. Okay, but where do you think the fcuking collagen in supplements comes from? Fucking industrially produced fucking bone broth. just, y'know in giant factories, not in your kitchen, and reduced water content so it's a gell or a pill and not a soup. so what they're actually arguing is that industrially produced bone broth is better. which...okay, but that's bone broth. and it's true about the vegetables by the way, which is why you cook the fucking bones with vegetables when you make the broth, to make the bones more bioavailabile. So the recommendation here is actually: don't make bone broth yourself, take our pills and eat your salad like a good little girl.

that because proponents of bone broth tell you that glucosamine is one of the components of bone broth, and that glucosamine supplements don't work, therefore bone broth doesn't work. but we're not talking about fucking glucosamine supplements? we're talking about bone broth? which you haven't shown a study about the uselessness of?

then they're like, "okay, there's supposed to be protein and calcium in bone broth, but you can get more protein from other sources, and the calcium is actually very little, so you see, it's not very useful". you know what's very high in calcium? milk. do you know how bioavailable the calcium in milk is? Not Very! because you need magnesium to put calcium in the right places in your body. without magnesium, calcium ends up in your joints, causing stiffness and arthritic symptoms. magnesium signals calcium to go to the right places, your bones. If you cook bone broth right, with vegetables, then you have the magnesium to do the job right. but also, you have to drink a lot, on the daily. it's not like taking concentrated vitamins, it's broth, it's just soup, it's going to take greater quantities. Also the amount of daily calcium you need is not as much as milk ads have made people think.

here, all they say is they have no evidence to support that bone broth helps leaky gut syndrome. how and why does this merit its own number on their list? "Uh.....we got nothing, but we're going to make it a bullet point" okay there player

aaaaand this is the only point I agree with, because I'm also sick to fucking death of all of the claims of detoxing around. you can't detox your body. your liver does that shit. you can maintain your liver and kidney health to HELP them do that shit, but you can't eat stuff to do their job FOR them.

and so the article's grand conclusion? what they actually write is that maybe bone broth is okay, it's neutral. SO their main point is actually that bone broth is okay? Even though the tone of the article is trying to lead you to believe that it's a big scam, even though they have maybe one point that supports that?

so how is this article actually informing you in any way about the supposed failures of bone broth? all they're saying is that collagen supplements--industrially produced bone broth--is better than home-made, that glucosamine supplements are not bone broth, that bone broth doesn't have 'enough' calcium without discussing bioavailability and actual studies of the amount of calcium needed and the actual amount of bone broth required, they can't even back up their argument about gut health and they have to concede that it's still actually nutritious.

okay so that's your gotcha article.

Listen I understand that bone broth has become trendy, and i'm also sick to death of food trends that take off because they've been passed around the internet looking for the next big thing to promote. but articles like this are also fucking shady, because they're using false equivalencies and ad hominem and faint praise to do their takedown, instead of actual fucking facts and studies. it's just as lazy as all the next-food-trend promoters.

I just want the internet to actually be the accessible central repository of all human knowledge that we all think it is, is that too much to ask?

[chrishangry]

Jiggly bone broth= successful bone broth