#Bone broth

[allsadnshit]

Beef bone broth rice noodle soup with taiwanese frost salt, ginger, goji berries, cilantro, lime, chili sauce, dark brown sugar, toasted sesame oil, shiitake mushrooms, and local flat iron steak for a nourishing lunch

[my-mom-named-me-duck]

sans 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?!

[master-jarrus]

Actually I'm going to go on a rant about sustainability right now

The demonizing of bones is one our great downfalls in society

Bones are so freaking useful

You can make needles, flutes, combs, hair pins, buttons, jewelry, and glue

But we demonized that, and it's not like a religious thing either

Or at least the initial demonization wasn't

Up until really modern times bones were just things you can use

In fact they were considered a nice material to use

Like whale bones were used for corsets, hence boning (obviously we don't want to keep hunting whales but we could scavenge the bones)

Everything we can use bones for has mainly been replaced by plastic

Plastic breaks easier and leaches micro plastics and other toxins 

If your bone hair comb breaks it can just get tossed without harming the environment

Edit:

I forgot they used to also make these bone brushes for softening and conditioning leather and those would get passed down from generation because they lasted so long and they just work better than any plastic can

[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!

[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

[lightthewaybackhome]

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

[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

[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.

[allsadnshit]

Bone broth from yesterday is sooooo collagen rich and gelatinous I am very very impressed with upstate New York grass fed farm practices!!!! So excited to turn it into a congee!!!

[fosters-hoe]

beautiful findings

[video-recipes]

Pastina En Brodo — lucysallysommer

[emnexxtdoor]

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