Posts Tagged ‘soup stock’

Waste Land: Does the Large Amount of Food Discarded in the U.S. Take a Toll on the Environment?

Waste Land: Does the Large Amount of Food Discarded in the U.S. Take a Toll on the Environment?

March 4, 2010 Now if this isn’t a waste: “According to the Agriculture Department, each year Americans toss more than 25 percent, of all domestically produced food. A 2009 study showed that a quarter of U.S. water and 4 percent of U.S. oil consumption annually go into producing and distributing food that ultimately ends up [...]

Small Batch Chicken Stock

Small Batch Chicken Stock

TwoJunes, Lisa Bell and Nicole Rees, share their latest recipe: We freeze all our poultry carcasses and bones, be it chicken, duck or turkey. Then, when the carrots and celery are looking a little droopy, we pull everything out and make a huge batch of stock. Very little gets wasted that way. We usually make [...]

Many Mushroom Stock

Many Mushroom Stock

TwoJunes, Lisa Bell and Nicole Rees: We tend to accumulate small amounts of leftover dried mushrooms in our cabinets from other recipes. This batch of stock happens to include dried maitakes or Hen of the Woods, dried porcinis and the off-puttingly named, but delicious “black fungus” also known as wood ear fungus or cloud ear [...]