On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:25:11 GMT, "kilikini"
> wrote:

>
>"Karen AKA Kajikit" > wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:46:33 -0700, Mark Thorson >
>> wrote:
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>> I used to make my own stock but we only have a tiny freezer so now I
>> buy it in the store... Costco has a six pack of all-natural organic
>> chicken stock that's not half bad. It doesn't seem to be
>> yellow-water-with-salt the way some of them do.
>>
>> Re icecubes - I used to have some icecube trays that made
>> semi-circular icecubes, so when the stuff was frozen if you pushed on
>> one side of the cube it would slide the other side up out of the tray
>> so you could grab it... much better than rectangles that 'stick' in
>> the corners!
>>
>> For thawing, just pop it in the microwave for two minutes and it's at
>> least slushy enough to use, if not entirely thawed.
>
>I have a tiny freezer, too, but I still make my own stock. I don't have
>room to store it in ice cube trays, but I pack it into tiny ziplock bags.
>You just have to defrost the stock in order to get it out of the bags, but
>it works!

For my money, stock is one of the best things to store in a freezer.
I remember staying at Kay Hartman's one time. I was making something
that called for "stock". She went to the freezer and said, "chicken,
beef, veal, veggie or fish?"

:-)

TammyM with a fridge/freezer AND a full-sized freezer (and there are
only 2 of us in this house! <if you only count the 2-legged critters>)