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College Inn Culinary Broth by urbanbohemian on Flickr
Another food recall, this time for MSG-Free Chicken Stock that isn’t MSG-Free. For people sensitive to MSG, this is so frustrating. I was around in the 1970′s and 80′s when labelling laws were prompted many heated discussions. Citizens asked their government to standardize labels so that the information on them would be readable, comparable and trustworthy. Here we are 25 years later and we are still battling with food providers to put the food in the can that is listed on the label and to put the words on the label that accurately describe what’s in the can.
Here’s a better option. Buy a whole pastured chicken, a few stalks of celery, a couple onions and carrots and make your own. It takes a couple minutes and is superior to the mass-produced stuff available that you’ll never go back.
Put the chicken in the pot. Whole. Skin, bones, the whole shebang. If your chicken came with a liver, heart or other pieces and you don’t want to save those for other uses, toss them in there too. Cover the chicken with water and toss in a tablespoon of vinegar. Cover the pot and cook for 2 days on low. I use my oven set to 170°, but you can use a crockpot if yours is large enough. On day three, add celery, carrots and onion. Cook another 20 hours or so. Toss in a few stems of parsley for the last hour. Drain stock and freeze in quart (or pint, depending on your family size) glass jars.
You can use the meat for cooking, but check out the bones before you toss them. The connective tissue at the top of the legs, for example, should be gone. It’s dissolved in the broth, held in suspension waiting to be consumed. It will be used by your body to create new connective tissue for you. You don’t need collagen injections, just this collagen-rich broth! Get off the glucosamine pills and get yours in your diet!
Use your broth to replace water when cooking rice, making soups and sauces, or even just a cup in the afternoon instead of coffee. Delicious, health-promoting and MSG-Free, for real!
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