All Praise For ‘Brothals’

Set one up in your kitchen and your health will improve exponentially.

Imagine a liquid, an elixir that could resurrect the dead…now how popular might that be!

Okay, so I was joking. There’s no such elixir.

But there is a liquid that does do a lot of things to promote healing in your body.

It’s worth considering adopting it into your diet.

THIS, is a pretty impressive liquid.

If you’ve ever been to a posh, expensive restaurant, and you’ve thought to yourself, I wish I could replicate that, you’ll know what I mean. The flavors are almost always ones that you can’t concoct easily in your cooking.

Still…you’d like to. If only you knew how.

Well now here’s your chance!

Not only will it enhance your dishes, but it will make you feel so much better.

If you would also like to have:

• fabulous skin
• healthy, luxurious hair
• strong nails
• a super-robust immune system
• fewer aches and pains
• energy to burn
• teenagers jumping out of bed at the crack of dawn? Sorry! That was a joke. There is no cure for that!

If you are into totally turning your health around, this article was written just for you.

We lived for a time in Melbourne, Victoria, and used to visit an organic butcher close by.

One thing he sold was chicken feet.

I know! I know! Everybody cringes when I mention these little guys.

They imagine the poor chooks stomping around in their territory, standing on their own whatever.

And to be honest, so might I have, in the past, but once you taste the broth that these little fellas can produce, trust me, your concern will banish overnight.

If you want to radiate superior health and well-being, drink bone broth.

Now, I’m not advocating the stuff dried in a packet, or sachets sold in health shops, though some may be better than others!

This broth is the real McKay.

I’m talking about FABULOUS, easily-cooked-at-home, bone broth.

Once I’d discovered the said feet, I bought them every single week, and cooked them with chicken wings, and carcasses, garlic, and herbs, just anything at all that would enhance flavor.

Long, slow cooking, over twenty-four hours, sometimes even forty-eight, and the stock magically reduced, when cold, into a thick jelly that can be used in soups, and casseroles.

I would chop the jelly into large cubes, and reserve some to use in my cooking. The others we drank.

That’s right! It became my family’s cuppa soup, the healthiest soup on the planet.

Method: Just take a block of your chicken jelly, add salt and pepper, some boiling water, and cream, and and you have a soup, not necessarily to die for, (such a silly phrase, I think!), but pretty darned good, especially on a cold day!

I kid you not! In the freezing cold of a Melbourne climate, this was pure gold! Moreover, when all around were coughing and spluttering, we never once got sick. I really believe this broth is what kept us well.

If you’re ever feeling rundown, try it.

If you just want to maintain good health, THIS is the tried-and-tested way to do it.

If you want the world to be a happier place, serve bone broth.

If you tend to eat too much, drink bone broth. It has all the minerals, and fat (good fat!), you need to feel satisfied.

A day without bone broth is like…how the hell would I know? You tell me…but only after you’ve tried it!

Please bear in mind, this is not a new trend. It’s a turning back to tradition.

I do a lot of research on health and the one thing I am absolutely sure of, is that we are becoming a much less healthy society of people.

As we consume more and more factory-produced food, we become less well. Our immune systems, in turn, become compromised.

It doesn’t necessarily show up right away, but things happen.

Have a look around you when you visit a supermarket. The high incidence of obesity is truly worrying.

Overweight people were never around when I was a child, and yet, I can’t say that our diet was optimal, but at least it was home-cooked.

People are becoming more aware of the need to get back into the kitchen, but where to start? Try your hand at slow cooking, which is where you will enjoy the optimal healing benefits. The rest can follow.

And I hear you…the age-old excuse about time…but when you see how easy it is to prepare, you might be prepared to give it a go.

The trusty old slow-cooker

It’s a set-and-forget cooking system that I HOPE never goes out of fashion.

Getting my chicken feet prepared and into the slow cooker takes all of ten minutes, give or take the soaking in water and vinegar, first.

I’d turn it on low in the morning, and it was ready by night time, but the truth is, that letting it simmer another day makes the broth even better.

Bone broth is a nutrient dense soup, and as rich in flavor as you want it to be, with so many healing benefits.

It’s interesting to note that bone broths form the staple of almost every culture around the globe.

A good French kitchen will always have a huge pot of broth on the go, often for several days. It forms the basis of sauces, soups, and pâté.

The same applies to Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese, almost any Asian cuisine, I’d imagine.

AND…it’s cheap!

The great thing about bone broth is its affordability. I never pay more than ten dollars for a large bag of bones…and those are organic or grass-fed.

You can make bone broth from any kinds of bones, beef, pork, and lamb, but if you want to make a really gelatinous stock, chicken feet are the ants’ pants.

Way back in time, before we all got ‘classy’ about our cuts of meat, our forebears used every part of the animal they killed. What we consider the ‘prized’ parts of the animal, (the fillets), they tended to feed to their animals.

And these days, I understand why. The fillets would be the least flavorsome of all cuts of meat…not to mention the driest!

But back to our forefathers…they used all parts of an animal, the feet, the skin, the tendons, bones and the marrow.

My goodness, what could they have done with today’s slow cooker!

Did they know that this was a healing concoction? Or was it the case that they had a more sacred regard for their food? I suppose we will never know.

But these days we do know that the long process of simmering causes the bones, the marrow and meat to release healing amalgams such as collagen (great for your skin), and glutamine (an amino acid).

The minerals from broth are easily digested and used in your body. For instance, glucosamine has an anti-inflammatory effect on the body and people I know who have suffered arthritic pain and swelling, swear by the broth.

I do too. In fact, I am sipping on a cup right now! It’s a daily occurrence for us.

I used to be a distance runner but gave up because my knees were too painful All that pain has gone since starting our bone broth regime. So if your joints are calling out to you, heed the signal, and try bone broth.

You know those little toe caps you can buy to protect your toes when walking? They have a gel-like lining. That’s the kind of protection your joints will get from bone broth. The released gelatin will not only act like a cushion for your bones, but will make them so much stronger.

So why not think about including some bone broth in your daily routine? Just make sure that you are buying the bones of healthy animals, organic if possible, or grass-fed. And just to reiterate the benefits you will experience, here they are….

• strong bones
• renewed energy
• an enhanced immune system
• youthful skin
• gut issues resolved

As Sally Fallon so rightly states:

“What America needs is healthy fast food and the only way to provide this is to put brothals in every town, independently owned brothals that provide the basic ingredient for soups and sauces and stews. And brothals will come when Americans recognize that the food industry has prostituted itself to short cuts and huge profits, shortcuts that cheat consumers of the nutrients they should get in their food and profits that skew the economy towards industrialization in farming and food processing. Until our diners and carryouts become places that produce real food, Americans can make broth in their own kitchens. It’s the easy way to produce meals that are both nutritious and delicious — and to acquire the reputation of an excellent cook.”

But this applies to the whole of the developed world, not just America. Making the practice of drinking bone broth will possibly save you from the multitude of chronic diseases that threaten us as a society.

It’s the sexiest reason I know, to have a brothel in your kitchen.

Will you try it?