We recently blind-tasted about a dozen brands of vegetable broth side by side. The result was astonishing: More than one brand was incredibly sweet, like carrot juice, while another had an ...

With minimal prep and as much time as you're willing to invest, the payoff is tasty.

You’ve probably tossed a carton of broth into your cart without thinking twice. It feels like a harmless shortcut, right up there with pre-washed greens and bagged shredded cheese. But that tidy box ...

Chef dumping vegetable scraps into a pot to make stock - Marsbars/Getty Images It's no secret that vegetable scraps are a frugal, zero-waste tool for making excellent homemade soups. But what ...

A new year always seems like a great time to purge the house of unnecessary clutter. This also applies to the kitchen and especially the freezer. If you have a bag with veggie scraps in the freezer, ...

One of the simplest ways to make vegetable stock is to get in the habit of saving trimmings of vegetables as you cook. Transfer them to quart-size zip-top freezer bags and stash them in the freezer, ...

I make and eat a lot of soup in the winter. More often than I want to, I will bust open a carton of store-bought broth. Sometimes the time and effort of making the soup itself is all I can handle.