If you make vegetable stock

[ScoutTN]

What veggies do you use? 

Carrots, celery and onions are automatic. What else?

[73349]

Surprisingly, some lettuce is nice.

[ocolateblip]

I make mine out of whatever scraps I’ve saved. Turnip peels, mushrooms stems, and garlic skins are nice in the normal carrot/onion/celery mix.

Edited October 29, 2018 by ocolateblip

[KungFuPanda]

Mushrooms make stock richer . . . or so I’ve heard. I NEVER remember to use them. 

[skimomma]

Winter squash seeds, pulp, and skins, chard stems, garlic, parsley, leek greens, celery root, lettuces.  I also add nutritional yeast and a little tomato paste for flavor.

I stash the squash parts, chard/parsley stems, and leek greens in bags int he freezer and pull them out for my annual broth canning weekend.  Between that and the carrots/onions/celery from my garden, I get away with buying almost nothing.

I avoid cabbage, kale, broccoli, radishes.

I have added potatoes before but that was a mistake.  It resulted in cloudy broth.

[ScoutTN]

Thanks for the ideas! I make chx and beef stock all year, and a batch of fish stock in the fall, but have never made vegetable stock.

Time to try sonething new!

[madteaparty]

Is there nutritional value to veggie stock? I ask as I stand here at 11pm making bone broth so I can get up at 6am to make chicken soup ? I throw the obligatory veggies in (plus ginger plus turmeric roots) but I always think it’s a waste bc of being cooked to smitherens. Would love to be wrong!