Before I give out any recipes, I want to talk about stocks.\u00a0 The reason being that so many dishes rely on a stock – soups, stews, casseroles, sauces, pur\u00e9s, even some curries.\u00a0 And for all these dishes, the quality of what you get out is very much dependant on the quality of the stock you put in.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not going to say you shouldn\u2019t use stock cubes or other commercial \u201cstock\u201d products, but I really want to get across how easy it is to make your own and that if you have some freezer space you don\u2019t have to make stocks very often.<\/p>\n
A stock is just vegetables, meat\/bones\/fish (depending on the stock), herbs and water simmered together.\u00a0 And most meat\/fish stocks are pretty much based on a vegetable stock any way, so once get used to making that, the others aren\u2019t far away.<\/p>\n
And you can make them very economically.\u00a0 Whenever I do a fish or meat dish, I keep the leftover bones and pop them in the freezer until I have enough to make a good stock.\u00a0 And if I am in the supermarket at the end of the day I also look out for any stock veg that is on offer as it reaches its sell-by date (onions, celery, carrots and leeks) as in a stock you don\u2019t need the absolute freshest vegetables.<\/p>\n
So look out on the blog for my stock recipes coming soon.\u00a0 And in the meantime don\u2019t throw away your bones – freeze them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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