Archive for Month: January 2012

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Kale-Lentil-Squash Chili / Homemade Vegetable Stock

My pal Lee recently posted about making her own vegetable stock.  I immediately started storing veggie scraps in a bag in the freezer. In just a few days my bag was stuffed with carrot ends; onion scraps and peel;  cucumber and zucchini peel and pieces leftover after spiralizing them; half an orange bell pepper that was ready to turn; an entire jalapeno also ready to turn; the big stem from a bunch of broccoli + a few broccoli florets; kale stems and a few leftover leaves. I tossed all of the frozen veggies into the crock pot, with a little […]