Paladini Potpie

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Bone Broth Party

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92053467_10157228992767076_8816959090023464960_o - CopyAround day 20 of the Covid Quarantine John and I dashed out to get supplies. We were wandering, masked, through the grocery store, eying all the empty shelves.

Then I happened to notice a bunch of cooked chickens in the meat case. They were rotisserie chickens that hadn’t been sold on the day they were cooked, so the store marked the price down for a quick sale.

I quickly I bought six of them. Why not? There was plenty of room in my cart since there was no toilet paper or bleach to be had.

IMG_0684It was time for a marathon bone broth party!

I’ve been making this bone broth for years; not only with day-old rotisserie chickens, but with Thanksgiving turkey bones, and bones of chickens I roast at home. I’ve always called it chicken broth or stock, but I guess bone broth is the new term.

When I got home with my pile of birds I washed my hands thoroughly for 20 seconds. (Long enough to say The Lord’s Prayer, by the way.) Then I pulled out a big bowl and my cast iron frying pan. IMG_0685I put all the bones, skin, fat, and juice into the frying pan, and all the nice pieces of lean chicken into the bowl.

This was actually a two-day project, since I had so many chickens. I made 2 batches of three chickens each.IMG_0687

I put the bones and skin into my big heavy frying pan and roasted it for 30 minutes at 400°.

IMG_0691Meantime I got into my freezer where I had been storing all kinds of carrot tops and peels, celery nubs, and tough broccoli ends. I try not to waste anything, so throughout the weeks I toss the veggie scraps into a big plastic zip-lock bag for the next batch of broth.

While the bones are roasting I bagged up the lean chicken to freeze in resealable vacuum bags.

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When the bones are roasted I transfer them to my instant pot. (Before I had an instant pot I used a big soup pot that worked just fine.)

Add the frozen vegetables scraps, and cover with water to the top line of the instant pot.

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Set the instant pot for 6 hours.

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Strain into a big colander, and throw the used bones away. The bones will be so soft you can mash them with the side of the spoon. But don’t.

IMG_0813Pour the broth from the bowl into a big jar, and let it cool overnight, or until fat hardens on top of broth.

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Skim off the fat and pour the broth into smaller jars to freeze. You will have nice savoury bone broth ready when you need it! IMG_0700

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Author: paladinipotpie

Welcome! My name is Andrena Paladini and this is a blog about family and love and faith and fun. I call it Paladini Potpie because a potpie is like an adventure in a crust. You never know what might come up, but it’s always going to be good! Think of the best potpie you’ve ever eaten…hot flaky crust holding a rich savory sauce and all kinds of pieces of meat and vegetables…and who knows what? As a family, we’ve chosen to live within the parameters of God’s love and protection. This is the crust of our Paladini Potpie. The crust never changes. Within this crust, the savory sauce of family love binds it all together. That is also fairly constant. But beyond the crust and the sauce we can add just about anything! Good ideas come our way and we’ve adopted and adapted them to add to what John calls our treasure box of memories. These stories and ideas from John’s treasure box of memories are the ingredients I’m putting into our Paladini Potpie. (Okay, so this ridiculous mixing of metaphors about treasure boxes and potpies is exactly what I’m talking about. Silly and ungrammatically correct. But both illustrations work… so we’ll mix them together and it’ll be just fine!) John and I have been married for 30 years. Our children have wonderfully doubled in number since David married Amanda, Monica married Dan, and Matthew married Sarah. And the newest little treats that have been added to our potpie are six adorable grandchildren - Ethan, Angelina, Nathan, Audrey, Maleia and Caleb! I hope you’ll subscribe to my Paladini Potpie blog, and keep up with all the fun new ingredients I add. Hopefully you’ll enjoy our stories and ideas, and find something you’ll want to put into your own potpie! Bon appétit!

7 thoughts on “Bone Broth Party

  1. My kind of woman Andy! I spose you’re still married? All the good ones are taken. Hey, I like to do all th

  2. Andrena, I do this after Thanksgiving, but just with the bones, and I set simmer in a giant stock pot for like 3 days! 🙂 Twins! 🙂 I’ve never been disciplined enough to keep the veggie ends, etc. If I do, they stay in my freezer so long they end up getting thrown out. Shame on me! If I’m doing really well, I will put them in a compost pile, but at my rate, it would take an entire lifetime to compost enough to do anything with! This is a fun and helpful post!! I’ll definitely share it! xxoo Linda

    “And let us not grow weary whi

  3. It would be worth the cost of an INSTANT POT to have bone broth cook in 6 hours instead of thirty-something.   Jewell KeeOffice Administrator/Board SecretaryAlzheimer/Dementia Support Center, Inc700 McHenry Ave., Suite BModesto CA 95350209-577-0018 office209-996-3054 cellCourage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day, saying. ..”I will try again tomorrow.” Mary Anne Radmacher

  4. love your hand washing “timer”…mine is the doxology (“Praise God from whom all blessings flow…”)

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