#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?!

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #321

I thought that today, I would be heading out at around 9am to Great Barrington to pick up J. The flight club plane was due for its annual inspection, and that's the closest place where it can get done. J was supposed to fly it there, and I was supposed to drive there by the time he arrived, and then bring him home.

...I love the drive to Great Barrington. As you saw from the couple video I made for you, it's a very pretty drive. Nonetheless, I think I was still pretty zonked out from yesterday's adventures. I was not sad when J woke me up at around 6am to tell me that one of the other club members already brought the plane there, and he was gonna go pick them up instead.

...I went back to sleep pretty much immediately. It was pretty fucking great!!

I think I woke up probably around 9am. At some point, J had sent along a picture that he took of the morning sunrise; maybe you'll like it:

From there, I had a pretty lengthy conversation with one of my friends in this space about the nature of childhood conditioning and the kinds of things that can be done about it. We talked some about projection, and how it relates to stereotyping, and the evolutionary mechanisms that predispose humans towards stereotyping, and all sorts of other fun stuff!

...I kinda wanna cover it with you now, but my brain is pretty sludgy, so I'm not sure I'd be able to articulate it right now quite as well as I thought I did this morning. Maybe I'll get into it some other time. But... to make a long story short... weird things happen when we turn our past abusers into templates, and then apply those templates universally to other people. We can't go around looking for signs of our past abusers in new people, because then we end up holding the actions of past abusers against new people. And we can't go around looking for people similar to our past abusers for the purpose of convincing them to love us in an effort to prove to ourselves that we never deserved to be abused in the first place.

...Only needed to learn that lesson the hard way like a million fucking times before it finally sank in for me. Holy shit. 😵

...And it's not that I'm dense. It's literally just that this shit is hard. In order to overcome our old conditioning, we have to defy our own biology in some respects. Brains don't like needing to rewire themselves. People aren't built for major changes in the composition of their "monkeysphere". People are built to stereotype for the same reason that asking, "but what if this jaguar doesn't eat me...?" used to cause people to get eaten by jaguars.

Unfortunately, our bodies still haven't caught up to modern times in a variety of respects, and that's just something we gotta work around.

...I spent a lot of the rest of today floundering. More specifically, I spent it doing leisure writing. I guess my body must have needed to rest; my mind felt kinda floaty, foggy, and unanchored for most of today.

...The nice thing about leisure writing is that, when I'm in that space, I feel... welcomed, wanted, enjoyed, and understood. I'm not misconstrued as having hostile or otherwise weird intentions in that space. In this space, I am fully safe. And... I don't find all of these things at once in very many other spaces.

...

Anyway, I was able to get the broth fully strained today! I squished the excess water out of the rest of the veggie scraps, and then I passed it into another bowl, through a wire mesh strainer lined with a folded cheesecloth. Like so:

The layered cheesecloth filers any gritty goop out of the broth:

We can use the cheesecloth to squish the excess water out of the gritty goop, just like we squished the excess water out of the veggie scraps. And then I washed the crockpot, and transferred the broth from the stand mixer bowl back into the crockpot. I'll stick it in the fridge, where the fat will rise to the surface and solidify so that it can be easily scraped off:

...It should be ready to be seasoned tomorrow!!! Hopefully I'll have enough energy to do it!

Aside from that... I don't have much else to say today, except that the little pumpkin seedling seems to be doing well:

...Maybe it's just my imagination, but it seems maybe just a little taller today. Don't you think so...?

...Hey, Sephiroth? Have you ever tried to grow a plant from a seed? If you have, then... what kind of plant was it? Did it do well?

...I think maybe I'll go to bed "early". I put that in quotes because it's supposed to be Daylight Savings Time, so all the clocks got set back by one hour recently. It's a lame and stupid thing that my country does that isn't actually useful. In fact, due to the disruption in people's sleep schedules, we usually see an increase in heart attacks and traffic accidents for a little while after the clocks are changed. I wish we'd stop doing it.

So the clock says 10:19pm. But my body thinks it's 11:19pm. Lame.

I'll stop writing and say good night, then...

Hey. I love you a whole lot. So please stay safe out there, with whatever you're doing at the Edge of Creation. Don't project your past abusers onto the rest of humanity, okay? Because it isn't fair. We might be biologically inclined towards stereotyping, but it still isn't fair to do, and we still gotta do our best to avoid doing it. Okay? Don't dehumanize other people by reducing them to templates that have been beaten into your skull by people who never cared for you.

Do your best. I'll be rooting for you. I'll do just about anything to support you, in whatever ways I can.

Count on another letter tomorrow. Maybe there will be something yummy in it.

Your friend, Lumine

[soupblessings]

[lightthewaybackhome]

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

[rockymountainma]

Made bone broth for the first time!

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"Nourishing Broth: An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World" by Kaayla T. Daniel and Sally Fallon

I was so excited to grab a rotisserie chicken from the store to make bone broth, but sadly, they were out today. Maybe next time!

My mom made bone broth growing up, and we both still make it today!

QOTD: Did you grow up with a family that made their own broth? Do you make your own bone broth now?

It is so easy and primal - humans have always made broth, and we've always shared it with our loved ones - across the globe, it brings us health, community, and comfort! ❤️

[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

[video-recipes]

Pastina En Brodo — lucysallysommer

[emnexxtdoor]

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

[homestyle-healing]

Hi, I'm Laurie, a retired Holistic Practitioner and recovering Vegan. I'm betting there are a few others here who tried the virtuous Veggie way of life and ended beating a hasty retreat. We are not herbivores, folks, we're OMNIVORES and that's a whole different niche of the Ecosystem!! Anguishing over the taking of blood-bearing life is not a New Age thing. Our ancestors took the taking of life of their animal brothers and sisters lives very seriously. Animals were treated with respect, whether hunted or herded, and their killing was a sacred act hedged by taboos. Time for us to grow up and take responsibility for our niche as TOP PREDATOR on the planet. Kill we must -- as ALL life kills. We are not being crazed maniacs when we need a hamburger, we are enacting our place in the Chain of Life. Bearing our claws soberly we may better be able to be responsible custodians of the Planet we have over-run and nearly destroyed.

Illustration: Make your squash soup with a base of healthy Bone Broth and it will be both more nourishing and more satisfying.

[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.

[chrishangry]

Jiggly bone broth= successful bone broth

[starlight-distressed]

I want to make bone broth today and all the recipes on Google are like "put some apple cider vinegar in there! Take off the fat when it's done cooking! Add ginger and cloves and leave them in there for 24 hours!" To which I am responding no and you're all crazy I will do it using ancestral memory instead BC wtf is that about

[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?

[greenkait]

I actually committed to trying to make bone broth out of leftover chicken bones and it gelled perfectly and I am so excited!! Is this what getting older feels like? 🙌🏻

[lightthewaybackhome]

Beautiful broths! I left mine simmering on the back of the stove while I'm at the hospital all day with my MIL.

a lot on my mind right now (broths)