Lazy Paleo Bone Broth

I just want to let people know that making bone broth doesn't need to be complicated. When I look online for bone broth recipes, they all seem unnecessarily complicated to my eyes.

I will start this post with some explanations of how I use bone broth. I use it as a hot beverage served in a mug, something that I drink after noon instead of tea or coffee, because it is super nutrient dense, has good healthy fats, and tastes really good on a cold day. It also has no caffeine, so it helps with sleep quality if used instead of a caffeinated beverage after noon. I really recommend it for women after their periods to help them recover better and faster from the blood loss and nutrient depletion that accompanies a woman's cycle. This is a recommendation from my functional medicine doctor, Lora Terres.

I feel that most bone broth recipes contain a lot of unnecessary ingredients. All you need to make a very tasty bone broth is a large grass-fed beef bone, high quality salt, water, and a crockpot. I usually put the bone in to make the broth early in the morning or in the evening before I go to bed. The easiest way is to put the ingredients in the crockpot in the evening and let them simmer overnight and then put the bone broth into glass pitchers with lids to store in the fridge for a week's supply of bone broth.

I use inexpensive glass pitchers with lids from Bed Bath and Beyond to store all the beverages that I make at home in the fridge. I currently have 6 of these pitchers and I use them heavily. I also use a 4 quart Crock Pot that holds 14 cups of filtered water when I make the bone broth. You may prefer the 7 quart Crock Pot if you have a large family and drink that much bone broth in a week. In that case I would double my recipe for bone broth.

We have filters put on our kitchen sink for filtered water. I really despise the waste and abuse of water rights in third world countries that accompanies most of the bottled water companies in the US. All they do most of the time is filter municipal water and sell it to you at a huge markup. It is both cheaper and greener to bypass the third party and simply install under-sink filters on your own municipal water. We have Colorado Water Wizard come and change our filters under our sinks every year, and they always install high-quality filters.

I also use a high quality salt when I make bone broth. I use Redmond Real Salt Sea Salt. This is the salt I use for most of my cooking needs. It is mined in Utah, very tasty, and less expensive than most of the Himalayan Pink Salt I see advertised. It also has a pink tinge with speckles of red, and contains lots of trace minerals, just like Himalayan Pink Salt.

I buy my grass-fed bones from Alfalfa's Market in Louisville, CO. They don't always have them, but they do stock them most of the time. I don't have a separate freezer, so I am unable to order from farms or ranches in bulk. For someone who does have a separate freezer, ordering from an organic grass-fed ranch is probably the best option. When I store the broth in the fridge, I pour it into the desired mug and heat it in my Breville Milk Cafe milk frother.

Lazy Paleo Bone Broth

Ingredients:

1 large grass-fed beef bone

14 cups filtered water

1 Tablespoon Redmond Real Salt Sea Salt

Implements:

1 4-quart Crock Pot

2 glass pitchers with lids

Instructions:

Place grass-fed beef bone into Crock Pot. Add 1 Tablespoon salt. Add 14 cups filtered water. Stir with large serving spoon. Place Crock Pot on High. Simmer for at least 12 hours. I usually start the bone broth around 6:00PM. When you wake up in the morning, turn Crock Pot off, remove and dispose of the beef bone, and pour bone broth into glass pitchers. Store in the refrigerator for up to a week. When desired, pour bone broth into a mug and heat in Breville Milk Cafe or microwave.

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