Thanksgiving Leftover Bone Broth
Spiritual Nutrition:
💜 Crown (Clarity + Divine Connection)
Simplicity of two ingredients — clarifies energy, supports purification, and reconnects you to the sacredness of transforming leftovers into nourishment.
💙 Third Eye (Intuition + Vision)
Slow simmering invites patience, insight, and intuitive timing; the process teaches you to trust natural unfolding rather than rushing.
💚 Heart (Love + Circulation)
Turkey bones + vegetables = mineral-rich, collagen-rich nourishment that strengthens the physical heart while offering emotional softness and comfort.
💛 Solar Plexus (Confidence + Action)
Salt + heat activate inner fire. Long-simmered broths support digestive vitality, willpower, and grounded self-assurance.
🧡 Sacral (Creativity + Flow)
Using whatever scraps you have — carrots, herbs, garlic, odds and ends — taps into creative flow and the pleasure of improvisation.
❤️ Root (Grounding + Immunity)
Bone broth is ancestral medicine: deeply grounding, stabilizing, immune-supportive, and tied directly to lineage, resourcefulness, and winter survival.
Nourishment Notes
Bone broth is one of the oldest forms of nourishment we have — a way our ancestors honored the whole animal, extracted every mineral, and stretched one meal into many. When we make broth after Thanksgiving, we’re practicing a kind of seasonal reverence: letting nothing go to waste, turning scraps into medicine, and creating a new tradition our children will grow up remembering.
This simple pot on the stove fills the whole house with warmth — the smell of comfort, of winter kitchens, of families gathered. And instead of throwing away the carcass, we transform it into something deeply valuable: collagen, minerals, amino acids, and slow-cooked nourishment that strengthens immunity, heals digestion, and grounds the nervous system.
Making broth this way is a return to resourcefulness. A humble act that becomes generous. What was once “leftovers” yields $50+ worth of rich, golden bone broth, enough for soups, sipping mugs, or beautiful jars to give as parting gifts. This is how we honor the whole animal. This is how we tend to our homes. This is how we turn one holiday into a tradition of care — year after year.
This isn’t just broth. It’s continuity. It’s stewardship. It’s gratitude in liquid form.
Cook Time: 1 hour 20 minutes (1 hr for sweet potato, 20 min bake)
Serves: 8–10 small squares
Ingredients
Leftover Turkey Carcass (or chicken, deer, cow, fish) — bones + any attached bits of meat, skin, or fat
Water — enough to fully submerge everything
Optional and Interchangeable:
Carrot — 1 (or any leftover pieces)
Celery — 1–2 stalks
Garlic — 1–3 cloves
Onion — half or whole
Fresh Herbs — thyme, rosemary, parsley (whatever’s leftover)
Peppercorns — a few
Bay Leaf — 1
Parsnip — any remaining pieces
Method
Take your leftover turkey carcass—bits of fat, meat, and skin included—and toss it all into a big pot. Then raid your fridge for any uncooked odds and ends: a random carrot, pieces of celery, a garlic clove, leftover herbs, half an onion, peppercorns, a bay leaf, even a parsnip. You truly can’t do this wrong; everything goes into the pot together. Fill the pot with water until all the ingredients are fully submerged, then cover and let it simmer for 10–20 hours. When it’s done, strain it over a large bowl and feed whatever’s left to your chickens or to the compost. Let the broth cool a bit, then bottle it up. Pour it into glass containers and allow it to cool completely before adding the lids. Store in the fridge for about 5 days or freeze for a few months. This simple tradition makes the most amazing Thanksgiving parting gifts or Christmas gifts
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