Stocks OAMC/Freezer/Make Ahead Recipes

"Saving all the odds and ends in the freezer while doing your daily cooking will give you an endless supply of stocks to cook with. You will not waste even those parts of the vegetables or meat that you paid for (usually by the pound), and will never again need to buy canned stocks. This will save you money and allows you to control the contents of..."

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Ingredients: broccoli stems, dill...

"Preparing the vegetables for this stock is so easy that I do it as I'm putting the groceries away. In NZ celery is sold the right way, with all the leaves, so it's too long to go in my veg chiller drawer in the fridge. This stock uses all the top part of the celery, thereby solving a problem and not wasting any good food! It also has the added bonus..."

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Ingredients: onions, parsley, water...

"Great vegetarian stock."

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Ingredients: leeks, onions...

"Classic Minestrone adpated this receipe from 9/1998 Cook's Illustrated. I'm going vegan for lent and need a tasty soup that I knew would help me through this process. I removed the cheese from the orginal and it's not the exact same but it makes a great vegetable soup!"

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Ingredients: leeks, salt, spinach leaves...

"Good to take on picnics, since it isn't served wartm, and zucchini is abundant in summer."

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Ingredients: fresh parsley, half-and-half...

"I would rather not use chicken to make stock for soups, but I haven't been able to find another way to make a tasty lower-sodium soup. I got this recipe from The Headache Prevention Cookbook but decreased the amount of salt significantly since sodium is supposed to be really bad for people with headaches, and people in general, according to Joel Fuhrman,..."

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Ingredients: leeks, cold water, salt...

"A green posole that just gets better and better as it turns into left overs. The water you boil the meat with turns into the extremely flavorful and spicy chicken broth and is the start of an amazing crowd pleaser! Got this recipe and tweaked it just a little bit for more heat and more flavor!"

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Ingredients: hominy, boneless chicken thighs...

"A hearty stew packed with flavors. My family eats this right up ,served with biscuits or a salad."

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Ingredients: vegetable soup mix, Italian stewed tomatoes...

"A basic, yet intensely flavourful recipe that forms a delicious bottom note for any vegetarian (or not!) soups, stews or rice dishes you care to make with it. Comes from the Fresh at Home cookbook by Ruth Tal Brown and Jennifer Houston. This is one of the best uses ever for shiitake mushroom stems!"

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Ingredients: mushrooms, onions, parsley...