Something that seems to have nine lives in our house is a roasted chicken. We save our bones and pick the leftover meat off the carcass. Before bed, we throw the roasted chicken bones into a pot and toss it in the oven overnight. The next morning we have a rich stock to keep for future soups, risottos or whatever else we might need it for.

I was reading one of my favorite food blogs, looking for a chicken meatball soup recipe and she mentioned making her chicken stock from a leftover roasted chicken in the oven. This sounded easy and brilliant and just the life hack I have my eye out for these days.