[Rajun Gardener]

I waited 2 days to get to this point.



Yesterday was cold so soup's on the menu.

Nice and chunky with plenty of veggies just the way I like it.


That was the easy part, buy frozen veggies and a jug of V-8 then brown beef shanks, cut them up and dump it in the pot, season along the way simmering for 3-4 hours.

While at the store they had oxtails and beef bones marked down so I bought enough to make a beef/bone broth to use for ramen and other beef dishes.

Roasted them with the veggies and got it started.











After 2 hours of simmering I removed the oxtails to use later, if you cook them too long they lose all the flavor to the broth.




8 hours simmering and cooled over night. I started on it again this morning. We have beef jello!!!


I browned/pan fried a chuck steak in some of that rendered beef fat along with more veggies to add to the broth and simmered again for a few hours. It was hard not to eat this steak for breakfast even if it was chuck it smelled amazing.



It reduced nicely and tastes amazing.

I'm ready for both ramen and sauces, labeled and in the freezer.


I saved some broth for supper, this was worth the wait and process. I pulled all the tendons off of the bones to add to the soup, freaking amazingly awesome goodness!!!