Rose's Very Own Recipe for Chinese Beef Bone Soup

    Soup on a cold rainy day really hits the spot.  Tonight I made my Chinese friend's  beef bone broth soup.  She gave me her recipe several years ago when one of our international students requested it for dinner one night.   

A few weeks ago I took a beef bone out of the freezer before heading for work.  And at dinner my husband helped me chop up the vegetables, and before long it was simmering on the stove. What a delicious smell, and it tasted amazing!  All of our students loved it!

Rose's Chinese Beef Bone Soup

1.  Prepare beef bone:
(1)  Rinse off 1 grass fed beef bone.  (I got mine at our Coop.)
(2)  Place into a saucepan with just enough water to cover.  Bring to a boil.
(3)  Immediately pour off the water and  place the beef bone into the pot with 12 cups of water in step #3.

2.  Prepare vegetables:
(1)  Chop up 1 daikon or some Chinese people call it white carrot.
(2)  Chop up 4 carrots.
(3)  Slice 1 onion
(4)  Optional:  mushrooms, nappa cabbage, bamboo shoots.

3. Prepare soup:
(1)   Put 12 cups of water into a soup pot. 
(2)   Add 1 T of rice mirin, 2 green onions, and 1/2 to 1" piece of  minced ginger, and 3 cloves of minced garlic.  Then stir in 1 T of salt and 1/2 t of black pepper.
(3)  Add the beef bone from step #1.
(4)  Add the prepared vegetables from step #2
(5)  Simmer for 1 to 2 hours.  Skim off any foam. 
(6) Towards the end add 1/2 to 3/4 cup of gluten free tamari (I used half Bragg Liquid Aminos and half tamari)and some rice noodles if you would like to add them. 

 Taste it and make any seasoning adjustments.

List of My Favorite Soups, Chili & Stew Recipes: 

Beef 

Grandma's Favorite Beef Stew  (My mother-in-law's delicious recipe!)

Just Like Home Ukrainian Borscht   (A Polish student  said this tasted like his mom's!)
Mouth Watering Italian  Sausage Soup   (This is my friend Debbie's recipe)

Poultry

This is the Best Gluten Free Minestrone Soup!   (A recipe my son modified)

Mexican Fiesta Chicken Soup   (A recipe I got years ago from a Mexican cookbook)
My Thanksgiving Turkey Soup  (My very own special concoction!)
Gary's Incredible Gluten Free Arkansas Gumbo  (Given to me by a Bible study friend from Arkansas)
Jeannie's French Market Soup  (A friend from when my kids were little)
Southwest Turkey Soup  (From my Syre School cookbook)

Fish
Northwest Salmon Chowder  (From my Heritage School cookbook)
Almost Like Ivar's Clam Chowder (From my Come & Dine Cookbook)

Bean & Legumes
Vi's Best Chili  (A  Bible study friend's great recipe)
Bethany's Crowd Pleasing Tortilla Soup  (One of my daughter's friends special soup)
Country Style Lentil Soup   (From my Heritage School cookbook)
Kathy's Texas Chili & Chips (From my Come & Dine cookbook)
Spicy Cuban Black Bean Soup (From a store recipe card)
Marilyn's Make It From Scratch Chili  (From my mother-in-law)

Vegetable

Downright Delicious Potato & Kale Soup  (From my daughter-in-law's family cookbook)
A Great Fall Soup - Make it From Scratch Corn Potato Chowder  (From my Heritage School Cookbook)
French Pumpkin Soup  (From my Heritage School Cookbook)

Asian
Chinese Chicken Soups  - Bok choy chicken, chicken & spinach, and chicken & cabbage (Modified from Internet search by our Chinese students)
Make Your Own Gluten Free Chicken Pho!  (Modified from a newspaper article)
Gluten Free Chinese Hot Pot  (Modified by a Chinese student)
Chinese Egg Drop Soup  &  Chinese Egg & Tomato Soup  (Modified  from a student's recipe)

Vegetarian & Gluten Free Tom Yum Soup (A delicious Thai soup) 
Deluxe Miso Soup (Kenchinjiru)   (Adapted from Internet search)
A Thai Mom Teaches Me How to Make Tom Yum Kung  (A student's mom's recipe)
A Vietnamese Cooking Lesson - Lien's Vietnamese Sweet & Sour Soup  (An International student's aunt's recipe)
Cooking Beef Pho for Vietnamese Students  (Modified Recipe with my Vietnamese students)
Asian Curried Chicken Soup  (From my Come & Dine church cookbook)