Chicken Stock

Home-made chicken stock is a wonderfully useful thing to have in your fridge or freezer. Fond is the name for stock in French; fond means foundation, which just sums up stock: stocks are the foundation of so many things – soups, sauces, casseroles, etc. Making stock is really just an attitude of mind! Instead of absent-mindedly flinging things into the bin, keep your carcasses, giblets and vegetable trimmings and use them for your stock pot.