Granny's gone and done it again

[lovesfarms]

Granny

 

[lovesfarms]

Thanks. Granny, just like in a restaurant I try not to waste anything. So in the freezer I have a bag of celery ends, onion ends, carrot ends, etc., that will go in with the chicken parts. Also I have the chicken gizzards and hearts ( sorry, just can't do livers ) ready to throw in as well and maybe a carcass or two from a grocery store rotisserie chicken for flavor. Thought about KFC bones but ... too greasy, so, no. And yes, will def strain through cheesecloth, I want it fairly clear, not muddy. And will then pressure can.

Are you roasting the bones in the oven first for extra flavor?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

There is freezer section with Jewish foods at Wegmans. They are ready prepared, with the last few minutes of cooking the soup, I plop in the balls. They get bigger so they are about the size of a cup
Edit: they are the consistency of home made bread but they taste almost buttery. Sort of expensive but he grew up on them and very digestible.

sounds really good

 

[microchick]

I made chicken pasta soup. We eat so much chicken soup we could start squawkin'. The frozen matzoh balls from Wegmans make it tasty. I didn't grow up with a Mama who made matzoh balls so I never learned to make them light and fluffy from scratch.

Hi @ShrekDawg

@lovesfarms find Matzoh balls in Northcentral Missouri? Girl we consider ourselves lucky finding Hebrew National Beef Hotdogs here. DH loves those things. I wouldn't begin to know how to make Matzoh from scratch either. When I make dumplings I use Jiffy Mix. My mother used to make dumplings from scratch but in all honesty, I think the Jiffy Mix ones come out fluffier....sorry Mom.... It was a big joke with us that she was always trying to teach me how to make pie crust. She never wrote any recipes down except for the sour cream chocolate cake recipe that her MIL had given her. So I could never get the pie crust recipe to be as good as hers. One day she asked me what I was going to do when I was married and my husband wanted a pie and I said do like women of my generation did and buy one at the store. Funny thing was one day I got to talking to a man in the local cell phone store in western Illinois before Thanksgiving who made pumpkin pies from scratch for his entire family. I asked him about his recipe and he gave it to me. I've been making perfect pie crusts ever since.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Thanks. Granny, just like in a restaurant I try not to waste anything. So in the freezer I have a bag of celery ends, onion ends, carrot ends, etc., that will go in with the chicken parts. Also I have the chicken gizzards and hearts ( sorry, just can't do livers ) ready to throw in as well and maybe a carcass or two from a grocery store rotisserie chicken for flavor. Thought about KFC bones but ... too greasy, so, no. And yes, will def strain through cheesecloth, I want it fairly clear, not muddy. And will then pressure can.

the hearts and gizzards I wouldn't think would help too much as your after the marrow. Not sure though

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hi @ShrekDawg

@lovesfarms find Matzoh balls in Northcentral Missouri? Girl we consider ourselves lucky finding Hebrew National Beef Hotdogs here. DH loves those things. I wouldn't begin to know how to make Matzoh from scratch either. When I make dumplings I use Jiffy Mix. My mother used to make dumplings from scratch but in all honesty, I think the Jiffy Mix ones come out fluffier....sorry Mom.... It was a big joke with us that she was always trying to teach me how to make pie crust. She never wrote any recipes down except for the sour cream chocolate cake recipe that her MIL had given her. So I could never get the pie crust recipe to be as good as hers. One day she asked me what I was going to do when I was married and my husband wanted a pie and I said do like women of my generation did and buy one at the store. Funny thing was one day I got to talking to a man in the local cell phone store in western Illinois before Thanksgiving who made pumpkin pies from scratch for his entire family. I asked him about his recipe and he gave it to me. I've been making perfect pie crusts ever since.

What’s up!?

 

[lovesfarms]

sounds really good

Of we have a 'bad stomach' day, we can heat some bone broth and add a ball. At DH Medicare appointment he got a bunch of referrals. One being to the memory clinic. I was thinking bone broth could slow memory loss, maybe.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I make my own dumplings when I do decide to cook but that's few and far between.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Of we have a 'bad stomach' day, we can heat some bone broth and add a ball. At DH Medicare appointment he got a bunch of referrals. One being to the memory clinic. I was thinking Vine broth could slow memory loss, maybe.

I've never heard of a memory clinic.

 

[lovesfarms]

Hi @ShrekDawg

@lovesfarms find Matzoh balls in Northcentral Missouri? Girl we consider ourselves lucky finding Hebrew National Beef Hotdogs here. DH loves those things. I wouldn't begin to know how to make Matzoh from scratch either. When I make dumplings I use Jiffy Mix. My mother used to make dumplings from scratch but in all honesty, I think the Jiffy Mix ones come out fluffier....sorry Mom.... It was a big joke with us that she was always trying to teach me how to make pie crust. She never wrote any recipes down except for the sour cream chocolate cake recipe that her MIL had given her. So I could never get the pie crust recipe to be as good as hers. One day she asked me what I was going to do when I was married and my husband wanted a pie and I said do like women of my generation did and buy one at the store. Funny thing was one day I got to talking to a man in the local cell phone store in western Illinois before Thanksgiving who made pumpkin pies from scratch for his entire family. I asked him about his recipe and he gave it to me. I've been making perfect pie crusts ever since.

Wegmans store is really good. They also have quality meats and a big assortment. I want to get some pigs feet, I don't care for them by themselves but they would make excellent broth mixed with other soup bones, and marrow bones. Do you roast bones before making broth? I had a friend that was really into making bone broth however they didn't cure her breast cancer.