(This blog post is late in coming. We have had some adventurous couple of days around here and I’ve been meaning to compile this for over a week but simply ran out of time!)

If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know that last year we bought part of a free-range, grass fed cow and split it with a friend. A couple of weeks ago, knowing that we were soon to purchase a whole free-range, organic pig, I went on a quest to start eating anything and everything in the freezer. Including beef bones.

Okay, so I wasn’t really going to eat the beef bones. But I had to do something with them, and seeing as how they’re pretty much only good for stock, that made my decision pretty easy. I found a recipe for beef broth on allrecipes.com. The assembly was pretty straightforward. I’m not a fan of cooking things on the stove for 5 hours at a time, so I adjusted the recipe to sit in a crockpot for almost 12 hours. If you do not care for the smell of the simmering broth, I would recommend putting the crock pot either in your garage or outside. This way you get all the goodness of delicious homemade beef broth without the wrinkled noses.