Need to use up chicken stock - recipe requests!

[Mel_Hill]

Or, you buy another freezer?

[Sarah_Kirschbaum]

@Mel Hill

Or, you buy another freezer?

One step ahead - we’re building a whole house with a walk-in! But that does not solve the immediate need.

[Dav1dZ]

This time of year, my mom (a very skilled home cook) always enjoyed spending a day or so in the kitchen making the perfect vegetable soup. Often she’d use a chicken stock base for extra flavor, but the game of it was in adding this or that vegetable to get the flavor of the broth just right with what was available. If you want to make it more substantial, you can always add a touch of some cured meat at any point in the process to flesh it out. But she liked letting the veggies show through.

[Bruce_Leiser_owitz]

@Sarah Kirschbaum

@Mel Hill

Or, you buy another freezer?

One step ahead - we’re building a whole house with a walk-in! But that does not solve the immediate need.

Isn’t it cold enough that you can just store the extra chicken stock outside?

Bruce

[CFu]

@Sarah Kirschbaum

We’re down to zero freezer space and need to use up a ton of stock, mostly chicken. Please share your favorite soup/stew recipes (or anything else) with the following characteristics:

• Using chicken stock
• Not using beans or lentils
• Not using pasta, rice, barley etc.
• Not too spicy
• Not at all sweet
• Preferably not squash or potato based

Thanks in advance!

Going paleo?

[Sarah_Kirschbaum]

Haha. Nope, no loopy fad diets for me. But I am a woman in her 40s who loves to eat and drink, and also loves being trim, so I have to pick and choose. I don’t like to spend my calories on essentially empty carbs like bread, rice, pasta, and potatoes unless they are really special - great sushi, pasta with white truffles in Italy, perfect frites, pizza my husband made etc… Or the rare late night cheese steak. But never as fillers. I get complex carbs and fiber from eating a ton of vegetables, and the occasional serving of oatmeal or quinoa on days I lift. Unfortunately, I can’t digest legumes very well, so have to keep beans and lentils to a minimum. My 6 year old stepson is a great eater, but doesn’t like too spicy, and my husband hates most sweet in savory dishes. Thus the list.

[P_Willenberg]

@Sarah Kirschbaum

Haha. Nope, no loopy fad diets for me.

thank goodness! I was worried we’d have to part ways.

[P_Willenberg]

since oats might be on your list then, I’ve been experimenting with thickening sauces and even soups with oatmeal after having dinner with Even Ramsvik of Ylayali. the basic process is to steep the oats in the liquid, either a broth or buttermilk or whey or some such, then strain the oats out. In the dish he prepared for us, he then topped it with shaved dried mutton and plum purree. it was magical.

[Sarah_Kirschbaum]

@P. Willenberg

since oats might be on your list then, I’ve been experimenting with thickening sauces and even soups with oatmeal after having dinner with Even Ramsvik of Ylayali. the basic process is to steep the oats in the liquid, either a broth or buttermilk or whey or some such, then strain the oats out. In the dish he prepared for us, he then topped it with shaved dried mutton and plum purree. it was magical.

This sounds fascinating, and I would love to try it. Please post or email me with more specifics if you hit on something you really like.