What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

How long do y'all simmer your broth/stock for when making it? Just curious.

 

[Molpet]

How long do y'all simmer your broth/stock for when making it? Just curious.

Until I get tired of fussing with it usually 12 to 48 hrs
Or everything has fallen off the bones. Sometimes until chicken bones are getting soft.

 

[Sueby]

Until I get tired of fussing with it usually 12 to 48 hrs
Or everything has fallen off the bones. Sometimes until chicken bones are getting soft.

That's where I'm at already & it's only been going for like 7 hours. I do like to make the bones soft enough so the chickens will eat them all, but I'm sick of babysitting it, my stove sucks. It's boiling one minute then it's forming a film on top the next. I can't maintain a nice simmer with my stupid glass top stove.

 

[WthrLady]

In case anyone else is in the path of totality for the upcoming solar eclipse, here is an interesting project you can participate in:

https://eclipsesoundscapes.org/

Eclipsesoundscapes.org.

This was published in Science News publication last November.

It was really fun being in the path of totality a few years ago. Have FUN!

 

[Sally PB]

How long do y'all simmer your broth/stock for when making it? Just curious.

2 hours in my Instant Pot.

It's boiling one minute then it's forming a film on top the next. I can't maintain a nice simmer with my stupid glass top stove.

I LOVE my Instant Pot, and highly recommend one.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

That's where I'm at already & it's only been going for like 7 hours. I do like to make the bones soft enough so the chickens will eat them all, but I'm sick of babysitting it, my stove sucks. It's boiling one minute then it's forming a film on top the next. I can't maintain a nice simmer with my stupid glass top stove.

That’s why I replaced mine with the coil type burners. It has heat sensors that make it more reactive.

 

[Sueby]

2 hours in my Instant Pot.

I LOVE my Instant Pot, and highly recommend one.

I have 2 Nesco electric pressure canners that are basically the same thing, I think. They're 9.5 quarts each & just not big enough, I do a lot of broth at once. How big is your instant pot?

& my dog is petrified of the loud beeps & the steam releasing.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I think this is the warmest February we've had in decades... All my trees and berries are budding out already so I'm praying March doesn't bring us an unexpected freeze.

Asparagus in peeking out of the soil too.

I went ahead and sowed some carrots and chard today too. In 2 weeks, I will start the next succession of lettuce. I'll also be starting the rest of my seeds indoors that same weekend as I'll be 6 weeks out from the last freeze according to Farmers Almanac. I'll be ready to bring my flower seeds out of the fridge (cold stratification) about that time too. Spring is just coming along so quickly...

 

[Molpet]

I think this is the warmest February we've had in decades

On the Chicago news they said right now we are in a 3 way tie for the warmest.

 

[WthrLady]

Prairie moon just arrived