Chicken Stock

Yesterday's second culinary endeavor was homemade chicken stock. I had some leftover veggies that needed to be used up, and a conversation with a friend reminded me about making stock as well as that I had a frozen chicken spine somewhere in the back of my freezer.

So the night before I pulled the spine out and let it thaw. After grabbing some thyme from my herb "garden", I was ready to chop things up and dumped everything into my largest pot.

Documented progress at the 4 hour mark:

I ended up adding about 4 cups more water during the six hour simmerdown. The strained result was 2 plastic containers of stock, and a salvaged vegetable side for a future meal :)

The only other time I made chicken stock (maybe 8 months ago), I got some great chicken gravy out of it. This time I think I will make a soup...