I Don't Waste Food

which is why I'm eating this.

I don’t waste food. Which is why I’m eating this.

Late last year, I taught an hour long class on the importance of soups and stews. If you want to watch that exclusive class, you can watch that replay right here. In the class, I shared the importance and economy of soups and stews for the home cook and the importance that they’ve played on our menu through millennia.

While we do enjoy them for their flexibly and economic benefit, there’s also more to it than that. Homemade broth and stock is a way to fuel your body with fat, protein, and collagen. The weirder the meat bits you include in your stock pot, the richer it tends to be in these valuable nutrients.

This is great news for the farmer who harvests animals and is left with knuckles, shanks, hip joints, and backbones. It’s also great news for the hunter who is often left with the same.

Now is not the time for wasting such an incredible resource.

I want to encourage you also to take note of the roasted bone marrow we make in the video. Economy be danged, this is one of my favorite things to eat in the entire world.

Whether you cut your own canoe-cut marrow bones or buy them from a local butcher or farmer, I cannot recommend them enough. In fact, you can see in the video: upon my first bite, I’m almost angry it’s so good.

A bit of education, a bit of encouragement, a bit of cooking: I hope you enjoy tuning into this week’s video on eating and using bones in delicious ways.

Happy (bone) eating.

Cheers,

Shaye