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  • Quick Veal Stock and Remouillage

    Another thing about stock generally: don't think that stock making must be a huge undertaking.  I got an email the other day from a home cook saying she didn’t have the right pots to make stock.  Please, listen to me: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MAKE ENORMOUS QUANTITIES AND MONOPOLIZE YOUR KITCHEN FOR AN ENTIRE WEEKEND IN ORDER TO HAVE STOCK.

    Put two or three pounds of bones in a 2-quart pot, cover with water, bring it to a simmer, skim anything that looks unpleasant off the surface, and put it in the oven set to 190 degrees for as long as you wish, a few hours at least or for beef and veal 10 hours is good.  Add an onion, two carrots and a bay leaf for the last hour of cooking.  Strain (the finer the strainer, the better the stock—I strain through a cloth).  This will give you about a quart of stock.

    For veal stock, see if you can find a veal breast, which has a great mix of bone, cartilage and meat (I know some people have trouble finding bones—if you’re not worried about cost, osso bucco works).  Ask your butcher to cut it into 3 inch pieces for stock (I use a cleaver which does the same work).  Roast them in a 425 degree oven until they are beautifully golden brown and delicious looking.  Then follow the above instructions.  Also add a couple tablespoons of tomato paste and some garlic.  Other aromats that are great to use here and in other stocks are leeks, peppercorns (crack them first), parsley and thyme.

    via ruhlman.com

    I started looking at veal stock recipes (like this French Laundry at Home one by Carol) and my heart sunk. For one, I only bought 3 lbs of bones + meat from Cioffi's (Yelp entry), and for two ... it's Sunday afternoon and I want to use it in risotto this evening.

    Luckily, the quoted way of doing it is pretty much what I had planned anyway - roasted then cooked in the oven for a couple of hours with onions, celery, and carrots.

    We'll see if I'm up for doing the remouillage aferwards.

    → 2:07 PM, Sep 19   •  Personal, recipe, stock, Cioffi's, remouillage, veal, Blog
  • Making pork stock

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    I followed a combination of #2 and #3 from this site on Chinese soups. Specifically, I used a bunch of pork bones plus a pork hock. The hock had lots of skin and fat as well as bones, so I trimmed the the skin off and then broiled it in a cast iron pan with a couple of cloves of garlic until the skin was crisp and the garlic was nutty brown.

    → 8:00 PM, Jun 22   •  Personal, cooking, pork, Chinese, stock, Blog
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