Making Stock with Kitchen Scraps

Before you throw those carrot peels, onion ends, celery leaves, herb stems, chicken bones, or vegetable trimmings into the compost or trash, save them for stock!

In this episode, we turn everyday kitchen scraps into a flavorful homemade stock that can become the foundation for soups, stews, sauces, gravies, rice, beans, and countless other meals. It’s an easy, economical way to reduce food waste while getting more value from the ingredients you already bought.

We’ll look at which scraps are worth saving, how to collect and freeze them, how to build a balanced stock, and how to strain and store the finished product. The goal isn't complicated cooking — it's learning how to turn ingredients that might otherwise be discarded into something useful and delicious.

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