Soup Scraps {frugal food secrets}

Soup tip of the day:

As you cook, throw any vegetable scraps into a plastic bag or container in your freezer.  You can save onion skins, celery leaves, the odds and ends from pressing your garlic or cutting up tomatoes, or any unattractive parts you cut out of veggies while prepping casseroles and salads.  Don’t save any parts that are black, moldy, or withered, though.

Later, you’ll have a free base to make vegetable broth or you’ll have some extra flavor for your chicken stock.  Just throw all that free veggie goodness into the stock pot with water to make your broth.

Waste not, want not!

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  • Raso @ lasagnarecipes.org.uk March 9, 2012 5:25 am edit

    Wow that is a great idea, we always threw it away, but from now on, we will definetly follow these instructions.

    Cheers.

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  • Kris October 30, 2012 10:50 am edit

    This may be a silly question but what do I do with it then?

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  • Tia November 5, 2012 12:23 pm edit

    You add the pieces to water, boil water for 45min-1 hr (max) and then strain keeping the liquid. and Viola you have veg stock (you are supposed to put in the water a small sachet (cheese cloth tied with the following it in: thyme, peppercorns, rosemary and garlic) and then strain out with the veggie pieces) *you can put a small amount of salt it you choose depending on how old the vegs are they, if they are a little old I would add a tad salt to bring out the flavor but totally optional.

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