Making Groceries: Stock

A quick video demonstrating how to make vegetable and seafood stocks FOR FREE!

The Bottom Line
A good stock is useful in so many ways. Obviously, it’s the heart of soup, but don’t stop there. I use it in risottos, rice, all kinds of sauces, poaching fish…. Basically, stock amps up the flavor of any and everything you cook. Because this recipe enables you to make it free, add it liberally to all your cooking. Spending about $3 for a store bought, processed version of stock is crazy. Not only does making your own taste great, but it doesn’t contain any chemicals, extra fat or sodium which riddle the manufactured brands.

I also love the aspect of getting the absolute most out of everything I touch. Adding the stock remains to compost furthers this even more. You take a vegetable from the earth. You eat it, enjoy it, extract all the flavor you can from it, then return it to nourish the soil from which it came. That’s just beautiful. It’s the right way to live.

Here is a link to roasting pumpkin or squash seeds that I promised in the video. They’re so good. I add them to salads or sometimes garnish the roasted squash itself with them. Come to think of it, you can buy these for several dollars in the nut section of the grocery store too. What a waste when you have your own for free.

The Bottom Line
A good stock is useful in so many ways.  Obviously, it’s the heart of soup, but don’t stop there.  I use it in risottos, rice, all kinds of sauces, poaching fish….  Basically, stock amps up the flavor of any and everything you cook.  Because this recipe enables you to make it free, add it liberally to all your cooking.  Spending about $3 for a store bought, processed version of stock is crazy.  Not only does making your own taste great, but it doesn’t contain any chemicals, extra fat or sodium which riddle the manufactured brands.

I also love the aspect of getting the absolute most out of everything I touch.  Adding the stock remains to compost furthers this even more.  You take a vegetable from the earth.  You eat it, enjoy it, extract all the flavor you can from it, then return it to nourish the soil from which it came.  That’s just beautiful.  It’s the right way to live.

Here is a link to roasting pumpkin or squash seeds that I promised in the video.  They’re so good.  I add them to salads or sometimes garnish the roasted squash itself with them.  Come to think of it, you can buy these for several dollars in the nut section of the grocery store too.  What a waste when you have your own for free.