Before I go to work...

...take a look at this! Such a cool recipe for something I didn't even REALIZE could be made from scratch! I really want the book that this lady got this recipe from. Anyways, here it is if you're interested. It's an AWESOME recipe for homemade bouillon. I use bouillon a lot becuase well, I'm too lazy to make my own stock...and it's easy to just have in your cupboard. You can use 1 tsp for every 1 cup of liquid in your recipe. You can use it in soups, risottos, and all kinds of things. You can freeze it too and it doesn't solidify becuase of the salt! awesome...

Homemade Bouillon
This recipe requires a food processor. An 8-cup / 2 liter / 2 quart model was used, and needed every cubic inch of it. The best approach if you are tight for space in your food processor is to add a few of the ingredients, then pulse a few times. The ingredients collapse and free up more space for the next few ingredients. If you don't find yourself using much bouillon, a half batch would probably be fine for you!

5 ounces / 150 g leeks, sliced and well-washed
7 ounces / 200g fennel bulb, chopped
7 ounces / 200g carrot, well scrubbed and chopped
3.5 ounces / 100 g celery
3.5 ounces / 100g celery root (celeriac), peeled and chopped
1 ounce / 30g sun-dried tomatoes
3.5 ounces / 100g shallots, peeled
3 medium garlic cloves
9 ounces / 250g fine grain sea salt
1.5 ounces / 40 g flat-leaf parsley, loosely chopped
2 ounces / 60g cilantro (coriander), loosely chopped

Place the first four ingredients in your food processor and pulse about twenty times. Add the next four ingredients, and pulse again. Add the salt, pulse some more. Then add the parsley and cilantro. You may need to scoop some of the chopped vegetables on top of the herbs, so they get chopped. Mine tended to want to stay on top of everything else, initially escaping the blades.
You should end up with a moist, loose paste of sorts. Keep 1/4th of it in a jar in the refrigerator for easy access in the coming days, and freeze the remaining 3/4 for use in the next month.

Makes roughly 3 1/2 cups
from 101cookbooks.com

And now I need to put on some makeup, blowdry my hair, and go to work. See you on the other side...aka THE WEEKEND! woohoo