Happy Sunday, everyone! Jess here.
I hope everyone survived yesterday’s snow storm ok! After a morning of karate classes and haircuts, we hunkered back down in the house with pajamas and board games. It was a great opportunity putter around the kitchen in between rolls of the dice.
I actually started making tonight’s dinner on Friday night, quickly browning up some thawed beef bones to make a bone broth. Into the slow cooker the bones went on Saturday morning, and were ready to come out early this morning. After straining my bone broth through a fine mesh sieve, I put about 5 cups of it back into the slow cooker with the following:
- 1 pound beef chuck, cubed (or just put a whole chuck steak in as I did here tonight)
- kosher salt and pepper to taste
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 2 chopped onions
- parsley (I used a cup of frozen broth with parsley in it from Parsley Fest)
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 4 Carrots, scrubbed and chopped (peel them if using conventional carrots)
- 1 rutabaga, cubed (optional)
- 1/2 cup Celery, chopped (I dipped into my freezer stash for this as well)
Directions:
- Add ingredients to the broth in the crockpot and cook for 8-10 hours
- Enjoy!
Here’s just about everything in the slow cooker. I kept the carrots out until a couple of hours from the end of cook time, as I like them not too mushy.
Here’s the final product, complete with gluten-free dumplings made out of potatoes and squash. They were good, I’ll post the recipe separately.
On Friday night, I had also set aside 2 of my beef bones that had good looking marrow tubes in the middle. I soaked these in brine to remove any impurities, and by Sunday the marrow was ready to be removed and sliced.
A roll in flour and fry in butter and these little medallions made a great appetizer! The recipe is here if you’re interested. (If you’ve never tried it, I know it might sound icky, but don’t knock it till you taste it. It’s pretty magical!)
We finished up the meal with some zucchini brownies from thawed the summertime. They held up pretty well and were gone quickly.
Long story short, it feels like a lot of work going on here, but really the slow cooker and the chest freezer did most of the work for this one. Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed the culinary journey tonight. Until next time, sweet and savory dreams!