um. hrm.

[verbicide]

I have a hundred-thousand gallons of turkey stock. After I make myself and everyone I know (except the damn vegetarians, *blows kiss to Jeff*) soup, I'm not sure what to do with the remaining ninety thousand gallons.

Maybe I could freeze it in bags for soup throughout the year?

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[richboye.livejournal.com]

Maybe I could freeze it in bags for soup throughout the year?

My father, ever the super-prepared chef, would save extra stock in an ice-cube tray (then break them in and store them in bags) and then throw them into gravy, stuffing, even mashed potatos throughout the year.

He also used to (well, still does) do this with fish stock and vegetable stock.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent idea. It's what I did with my vat of pesto from this summer.

Though, there is so much stock (probably 12 quarts worth) that it'll take forever to freeze them with my one ice cube tray. I suppose I could go buy a few more trays, though.

Thanks, Rich!

[richboye.livejournal.com]

Yes, add to this to the Boye-rific idea of making breadcrumbs from old crackers.

I also just thought of why my father used to save old yogurt cups - he uses these as a slightly larger container for saved stock and then freezes them. (another tip? In preparation for a party, he'd start saving milk cartons, fill them with water, freeze them and then smash them with a hammer to fill up coolers or icebuckets for chilling wines etc. Why buy ice? He considers buying ice to be the very depths of bourgeois decadence)

My father a) is a trained chef b) a retired military guy and c) was born during the Great Depression. He literally wastes nothing in the kitchen. We had a separate freezer downstairs filled with ham-bones and lobster shells, fer peeseake.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

How very cool about your dad--he sounds very resourceful.

I grew up in a house where everything was stored in old yogurt containers and it personally makes me a little nuts, so I'm happy to waste money on tupperware :)

[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm the same way about old yogurt containers (but the above idea about ice does sound cool). I've heard of making ice cubes out of stock, but I'm grossed out by using my regular ice cube trays for that and too lazy to have trays just for freezing stock, so I just have some small Tupperware (um, about a cup, I think), and I freeze stock in those. I rarely want less than a cup (I always make rice with stock instead of water, but that always uses more than a cup), but I could microwave the tupperware and use what I wanted if I happened to need less.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

That's a really cool idea. (And my fridge has an ice cube maker, so trays would never really be used for ice itself!)