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Eat Well, Spend Less: The Never-Ending Chicken Broth (Am I "Stocking Up" or Being Greedy?)

January 24th, 2012 · 49 Comments · Do It Yourself, Frugality

People are often asking where to start: you know, when they’re first coming over to a real food lifestyle and feel overwhelmed at the laundry list of changes they’ll have to make to their standard American diet (read: processed foods). Now that I’ve survived the last six months, moving twice, living with my in-laws (which [...]

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Monday Mission: Do Something New with Stock

January 23rd, 2012 · 26 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to do something new with stock this month. It’s a Back to Basics for January, advanced level. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps We’ve often talked about making homemade stocks and bone broths (I’m using those terms interchangeably here, but they do have slightly different meanings [...]

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Monday Mission: Back to Basics & Traditional Foods Resolutions

January 2nd, 2012 · 19 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to go back to basics and renew your commitment to regularly making traditional foods and including them in your menu plans. (You are menu planning, right?) Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Last January I visited some vital topics in real food cooking and challenged folks [...]

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How to Make Bone Broth with Serious Gel {GUEST POST}

November 15th, 2011 · 74 Comments · Food for Thought, Monday Missions

When the feasting lets up a little, and the kitchen can be cleaned up a little, I tend to want to throw everything into either the dishwasher or the garbage. Leftovers are quite handy to have, so I’ll make an exception and pack those up for the fridge, and there’s one other thing I’ll do [...]

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Monday Mission: Grab Those Bones!

November 14th, 2011 · 67 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to call dibs on the turkey carcass this year, make stock…and then commit to using some sort of bone broth in your meal plan at least once a week until May. This mission, by the way, is really for me. But you’re invited to join in! You [...]

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Monday Mission: Make Stock or Upgrade Your System

November 29th, 2010 · 17 Comments · KS lifestyle, Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make homemade stock this week. If you’ve never tried using chicken (or turkey) bones to make nourishing bone broth/stock, you’re really missing out. Homemade stock is one of the foundational Kitchen Stewardship habits, because it does this: Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Those symbols [...]

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Do You Know These 10 Tips for Even Better Homemade Chicken Stock?

January 21st, 2010 · 62 Comments · Do It Yourself

Chicken stock is one of the quintessential Kitchen Stewardship habits (you can see the other 9 here). I thought I had it down to a science, but still I have made some changes to the way I make chicken stock since I posted on it last year.

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