I bought the marrow bones, meaty bones and knuckle bone from Anderson Farm last weekend and made the Nourishing Traditions Beef Stock (page 122). It wasn't as daunting as I had expected. You want to know something? That large pot sat on my stove at a low temp for TWO DAYS! I loved the process and watching the different stages of this mess of gelatinous goop develop. Not to mention the fact that my mom's dog, Daisy, was drooling for hours and hours at the smell. We gave her the bone marrow and left over meat from the meaty bones and we remarked that, by eating this, she would probably revert back to being puppy and jump out of her 15-year-old arthritic body. What a lucky dog she is!
I strained the goopy goop after two days and, what do you know, it turned into beef broth! Broth that no one can ever purchase at a store. A life-giving, super-powered, primitive broth with all the good stuff our bodies need. It's so much like gold to me that I'm afraid to use it up - how can I possibly ever let myself run out of this stuff?
Chicken stock is next on my list (but not this weekend). Maybe I'll purchase one of Sweetland Farm's stew chickens, which, by the way, I saw alive pecking in the dirt just several weekends ago. Now they've been sacrificed for the greater good.
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