{"id":15619,"date":"2012-06-11T09:54:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T13:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=15619"},"modified":"2012-06-11T09:54:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T13:54:47","slug":"update-exploring-homemade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2012\/06\/update-exploring-homemade\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Exploring Homemade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stock_simmering.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15232\" title=\"Stock simmering\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stock_simmering-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stock_simmering-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stock_simmering.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> If you recall <a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2012\/04\/exploring-homemade\/\" target=\"_blank\">from this post<\/a>, I mentioned that I wanted to start making more things at home. I wanted to start saving on costs but I also wanted to be more in control of our food.<\/p>\n<p>The three B&#8217;s that I was going to start making at home were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Broth\/Stock<\/li>\n<li>Butter<\/li>\n<li>Beans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have kept to my promise and have made all of these things at home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Broth\/Stock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have made stock several times now, both chicken and a beef stock. \u00a0However I&#8217;m finding that because it&#8217;s summer, I&#8217;m not using nearly as much broth as I used to. \u00a0I still use it for making rice but with warmer temperatures soups, stews, and braised meats aren&#8217;t so abundant.<\/p>\n<p>Stock will keep for several weeks in the fridge (I&#8217;ve double checked this and also have done it without issues) but I also felt the pressure to use it up. \u00a0For right now I&#8217;m only going to make stock on occasion and rely on boxed stock to see me through summer.<\/p>\n<p>Once the cooler weather comes back I&#8217;m going to revisit making my own stock and not purchase boxed stock. \u00a0I&#8217;m also going to look into pressure canning so I can seal and store my stock in the pantry.<\/p>\n<p>For now boxed will work and I&#8217;ve reduced how much I purchase at the store.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made my own butter and this has shown to be a lot more cost effective than purchasing butter.<\/p>\n<p>The butter I would buy was unsalted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerrygold.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry Gold butter<\/a>, which is grass-fed Irish butter (again if you are buying, make sure to get the good stuff). \u00a0The cheapest I could find that was at my Whole Foods for $2.79 for 1\/2 a pound of butter.<\/p>\n<p>I can purchase a half gallon of \u00a0local grass-fed cream for $9.99 (Whole Foods to the rescue again with the cheapest price).<\/p>\n<p>From that half gallon of cream I can get just over two pounds of butter along with a quart of buttermilk. \u00a0All for $9.99.<\/p>\n<p>At $2.79 for 1\/2 pound of butter, it would cost me $11.16 (2.79 x 4) to get 2 pounds of butter which doesn&#8217;t even include the additional bonus of buttermilk.<\/p>\n<p>Win win! So I&#8217;ll stick with making my own butter when I can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I still have a few cans of beans to get through to clear out my pantry but I have made black beans in the meantime. \u00a0I purchased a pound of organic black beans and cooked them up which\u00a0yielded me about 6 cups of black beans total. \u00a0I used two cups for a recipe and froze the remaining beans in 2 cup portions.<\/p>\n<p>This I also like a great deal and will continue to make beans at home and freeze portions of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy with the progress that I&#8217;ve made with this little adventure! \u00a0I like making things at home and taking a day just to be in the kitchen and filling the house with great smells and yummy foods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are things that you stopped purchasing and started making at home?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you recall from this post, I mentioned that I wanted to start making more things at home. I wanted to start saving on costs but I also wanted to be more in control of our food. The three B&#8217;s that I was going to start making at home were: Broth\/Stock Butter Beans I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,80],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-43V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}