Recipe for Delicious Soup Stock

Basic Chicken Stock


Ingredients:

3-4 lbs. chicken thighs
4 qts. water
1 onion, cut in half
1 T. cider vinegar (leeches calcium from bones into stock)
1 T. salt (to taste)
Any amount of wilted field greens, romaine salad mix, lettuce (no
    broccoli or cauliflower)  the more the better


Procedure:

Put chicken thighs in pot with water
Add salt and vinegar
Put a portable steaming gadget in the pot, over the chicken
Add veggies and onion into steamer.  Whole tomato may be added
and any wilted carrots.**
Bring to boil, lower temperature and simmer for a couple of hours
When done, lift steamer out and discard veggies
Remove chicken
When stock is cooled, it's ready for storage in glass jars and frozen  
   until needed.
Chicken can be used for soup or chicken salad or as is

**When your veggies begin to wilt, put in baggie and freeze.  Use
     for soup stock.  Whole  tomatoes can be frozen and used for
     cooking, either in stock or any other cooked meal.  Hold frozen
     tomato under hot water to pop the skin, if  you want it removed.