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How To Make Stock Without Going Insane

Published February 16, 2021

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Mark: The best chicken stock you can make without going insane is… you make a good chicken stock with a high proportion of meat….and a high proportion of vegetables, mostly carrots, garlic celery, onions, that kind of thing. Then you add fresh vegetables to it, and that is the best. THAT is the best. It is so good. 

Kerri: That’s the kind of soup we usually make is some kind of vegetable soup with the chicken stock. I also make bean broth: I save bean broth in the fridge and if I don’t use it, I freeze it. The only vegetables I don’t use are bell pepper, cabbage, turnips, you know, really strong-tasting things that can go bitter. Otherwise, I love fennel, carrots, fennel fronds. But my favorite stock is beef stock with roasted bones and lots of marrow….

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