Home Made Simple

I'm on the church BBQ team. Some months ago, I brought home the scraps from the chicken we were fixing. I put the scraps in the freezer until I could get the time to make some home made broth. Making broth is so simple and can save you money, especially if you use a lot of it.
This is a pic of the meat scraps I brought home from church. It's quite a stash. It includes chicken and beef scraps.

Here are some different ideas about chicken you can use:

• save the carcass from a deli chicken
• save the neck and back pieces if you cut up your own chicken
• save the carcass if you roast or boil a chicken

I'm sure there are more, but those are off the top of my head.

To make home made broth:
Put your chicken carcass in a large pan. Add 2 onions, quartered; a few stalks of celery; a couple carrots; salt (optional) and pepper. Cover with water but, leave enough room in the pot for the chicken to make its own broth. Otherwise it will boil over and you will have a mess. Cover; bring to a boil. Turn down to simmer and let simmer for 2-3 hours or longer. Let cool and put into muffin tins. Pop them in the freezer and once frozen, put as many as will fit into a freezer bag. You can also just pour the cooled broth into a freezer bag. Freeze flat to save room.

The white specks on the broth muffins are ice crystals. I left them in the freezer too long. Oops! My bad. If you put your into freezer bags right away, they won't look like that.

See how easy that was?!

I took pics of the process, but forgot to put my memory card back in my camera. I don't know where my cord is....or if I even have one.....so they are stuck on my camera for now. :-) I'll take pics the next time I make broth and post those. Have a Happy Jack day!!!