Linda’s Brodo alla Nonna

Recipes
Written By Linda Secondari

This is my Nonna’s recipe; it makes approximately 2 liters of broth. This broth is wonderful with cappelletti or for Stracciatella.

Ingredients

  • 1 peeled carrot whole

  • 1 onion

  • 2 celery sticks

  • 1 ripe fresh tomato

  • 1 medium sized baking potato

  • 2 bay leaves

  • Parmigiano rind

  • 6-10 cloves

  • handful of parsley stems

  • 2lbs of chicken on the bone

  • 2lbs of beef including bones

  • 1 tablespoon of salt

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 3 hours

 
 
 
 

Directions

  • Prepare a pot large enough to hold the liquid.

  • Push the cloves into the onion add to the pot.

  • Add the remaining ingredients to the pot and add enough cold water to cover by 4 inches.

  • Place over a medium heat and bring to a boil, then reduce the heat until it is gently simmering semi covered

  • Remove any froth that accumulates on the top.

  • Continue to simmer gently for 3-5 hours.

  • Taste and season with salt.

  • Turn off the heat, remove from the heat and let it sit for 30 minutes or so to allow it to settle and cool a bit (it will still be hot, so be careful!)

  • Pour the broth through a fine-mesh strainer. Discard ingredients in the strainer.

  • Allow the broth to cool in the fridge. Fat will congeal at the top after a few hours, remove all but 20% of the accumulated fat.

Yield: approximately 2 liters of broth

 

Related Posts

Featured
Reading While Distracted: Points of Entry
Reading While Distracted: Points of Entry

A Deep Dive into How to Create Engaging + Accessible Text Layouts

Reading While Distracted: The Skimmers
Reading While Distracted: The Skimmers

Admit it, you can’t keep up with everything you need to read.

Designing Longform Content in the Age of Short Attention Spans
Designing Longform Content in the Age of Short Attention Spans

With the rise of social media and endless streams of content, our attention spans have become shorter than ever before. As a result, designers and publishers of long-form text are facing new challenges. How do we create content that is approachable, engaging, and, most importantly, able to retain the reader's attention?

Linda Secondari

I’ve spent more years than I care to mention honing my skills at preeminent academic publishers. As the Creative Director for both Oxford University Press and Columbia University Press, and Art Director for Russek Advertising (where clients included Shakespeare in the Park and John Leguizamo), I felt the call to take what I’d learned and what I’d done and start my own design studio (or studiolo).

Using intelligent design strategy and inspiring design solutions, I believe we can improve the world through better communication. I’ve been fortunate to do that for independent authors, major publishers, NGOs, educational institutions, nonprofits and think tanks. And while the industries might be varied, the one unifier is a desire to reach their audience and get their big ideas noticed.

Whether I’m cooking up a batch of puttanesca or helping an organization rethink their look, message and go-to-market strategy, I always strive to create an end result that wows.

My clients often remark how I interpret what they need from what they say and that I’m the calm voice of reason in their often frenetic industry. (must be all that meditating.)

If you have a project that could use some transformation, let’s turn the page together.

 

http://linda-secondari.squarespace.com/
Previous

Linda’s Moroccan Chicken Tagine with Preserved Lemons
Next

Which Came First, Spaghetti Carbonara or the Egg?