Crock pot chicken broth recipe

In my continuing quest to create my online recipe book, here’s a recipe I’ve been making a lot recently.  It’s vaguely based off of this crock pot chicken broth recipe.

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First I take a whole chicken, clean it out, chop up an onion, and put random spices on it and a cup of water.  I leave that in the Crock-Pot (I adore my crock pot, it was a Christmas present a year or so ago and it’s great because the lid seals on, for travel) on low all day long, usually on Wednesday because we have small group, and I can just feed the kids some chicken and salad and it’s a quick dinner.

Spice options for your crock pot chicken:

1. A pre-bought spice mix, like Italian spices or something like that
2. Onion soup mix(I also found onion soup mix recipe I’ve been trying recently)
3. Ranch Dressing Mix(make your own ranch dressing mix)
4. Taco Mix(make your own taco mix, our local store has this in the bulk spices department).
5. Whatever things I feel like throwing on it.  You can see in the picture up above I put a couple of bay leaves in there, and I think that time it was a poultry seasoning mix.

At the end of the day take your chicken out and it will fall apart like this because it’s so tender.  Usually, I pick a few pieces off for our meal right then and then let it cool down for an hour or so.  Then I proceed to shred the entire stinking thing into empty Peanut Butter jars for freezing.  I usually get about 6-8 cups of meat from the chicken.

Then I stick all of the bones, skin, and other gross stuff back in the crock pot.

I add in a new chopped-up onion, some chopped-up carrots, a big heaping spoonful of minced garlic, and a dash of vinegar.  If I’m feeling ambitious I’ll put in some other random spices, maybe a bit of pepper or salt.

Put the slow cooker on low for 24 hours and at the end, you have some mighty delicious tasting crock pot chicken broth.  Because my slow cooker isn’t too huge, I tried this last time cooking the bones and stuff twice with water, and mixing the two batches together and that worked just fine.

After it’s all done cooking I refrigerate it for a day or so and strain off most of the solidified fat (though this last time I didn’t do that), and pour it into more of the peanut butter jars.

What’s been going on here this week (aside from making crockpot chicken broth)

Because in a bit of irony I’m actually writing about what we actually did this week, though the pictures are not from this week, other than the final one, which I’ll upload after the post is published and I’ve canned it all.

Going in order, left to right, top to bottom:

1. We saw “Beyond the Mask,” it’s a fun bit of historical fiction set at during Revolutionary War.  All 3 Kids approved of it, which is quite a coup.
2. We learned about King John and the Magna Carta.  Princess’ paragraph cracked me up with her long introduction for 1 incomplete paragraph.
3. We worked on editing paragraphs we’d written.  This paragraph is Superman’s Minecraft paragraph.  It’s all about the dangers in Minecraft.
4. We stopped to learn about the historical marker by Princess’ dance class.  It was a site for a Free Will Baptist church that was anti-slavery.
5. We learned about hurricanes and their many synonyms.
6. I got our new Mystery of History CDs in for next year.  I’ve already started ripping them to my phone, it’s gonna take awhile there’s lots of discs.
7. Princess finished off All About Reading 3 and is now officially a 4th grader!
8. The kids learned double digit into 3 digit division, which meant lots of math blocks playing.

Oh, and I just want to brag on my kiddos and our first creation for the Springtime Art Class (you can still join in if you want).  They all did awesome.  The boys are sharing their second creations for the art class.

Going around left to right, top to bottom again.

1. The kiddos recreated the Belgariad characters with Legos.  We’ve been listening to that in the car as we drive around and they have been acting out large parts of it.
2. We had a belated Easter egg hunt because it was raining on Easter.
3. More Easter egg hunt.
4. Princess was goofing off and had to show me how she balanced her dolphin.
5. The kids “found” a 10 year old and 2 year old in our backyard, this is who they found.  Totally believable.
6. We played A Touch Of Evil Supernatural Game, which is a bit like being in Sleepy Hollow, and worked together to defeat the rather nasty villain we fought that time.
7. Mac enjoyed the Easter egg hunt as well, watching the kids run around.
8. I had fun cooking up some leftover ham in a pastry shell.

All right, now I’m off to go can up lots of chicken broth and put it in the freezer and pack myself a lunch, we have a field trip today to the art museum!  I can’t wait.