Let's talk chicken stock. Do you keep it handy?  Having chicken stock around is like owning a black dress or a pair of red shoes; it's just something you have to have to have and it makes you feel good. The best chicken stock is made in  your own kitchen.  You can control the final product -the complexity, the flavor profiles, the intensity, the salt content- because you decide what goes into the pot.  But there's more to it than the simple issue of control (What did I just say?  Something is more important than control?)  There's the issue of texture. I know that most of the time texture is not the first thing that pops into the View Post