Lazy mom's bone broth
If you really haven't heard of bone broth, feel free to google it. There are those who claim it is a solution for many digestive and health complaints. I have no scientific designations that should lead you to believe that I can offer you nutrition-based solutions for what ails you. What I can tell you is that a good bone broth is just plain good and it can be quickly and easily turned into a healthy soup.
While bone broth may be a new term for many, it's basically just stock or soup that grandma (or great grandma) would have made prior to the rise of the canned variety. You boil bones and the remaining meat left on those bones for a long-ish period of time. After that's done, you remove the bones and can add any additional veggies, rice, noodles, etc.
To get through the week, I will often cook a full chicken on the weekends so that we can use leftovers with meals for a few days. Alternatively, when I'm feeling really lazy I will pick up a pre-cooked chicken at the grocery store. Once we have the chicken picked pretty clean, what's left gets thrown into a crockpot filled with water and left to simmer for the day. Volia! You have bone broth. Don't you feel fancy and hip!
Lazy-mom's Bone Broth (slow cooker)
You need a slow cooker for this one to be lazy. There's no reason you can't do this on a stove top but you would need to watch to make sure it's not boiling dry, make sure the house doesn't catch on fire, etc.
Bones and leftover scraps of meat (I use a chicken carcass but there's no reason you can't use beef, turkey, whatever animal you chose)
Salt to taste
Additional flavours (I will often throw in a chopped onion and a bay leaf. Garlic, rosemary, chilli flakes, carrots, etc. Follow your heart's desire)
Water
Throw all the ingredients into your slow cooker and fill about 3/4 of the way with water. Set on low for 10 hours or so. This isn't science. If you only leave it for 4 hours, the sun will continue to rise and set as per normal.
After you are done, strain everything out and you have bone broth. I just use a small mesh strainer or a slotted spoon and put everything onto a large platter. Once it's cooled, I will pull any pieces of meat (which are now just falling off the bones) and put them back into the broth to make soup.
To make soup:
Throw in the vegetables of your choice. I often chop 3 small potatoes, a small onion, a couple of carrots, and a handful of brown rice. Use what you like.
Set slow cooker for another 4 hours or so. It's d