How's Your Turkey Soup?

[GuingesRock]

Hello, It’s awfully quiet around here. Did anyone else survive Christmas?

I’m quietly sipping some of my Xmas Scotch and making turkey soup. Fried up some onions and garlic and put it in the pot with the turkey. Threw all the left over veg, (Brussel sprouts with chestnuts, glazed parsnips, carrots, beets), homemade cranberry sauce and the rest of the gravy. I’m putting in some brown basmati rice also…wonder what it will be like.

How’s your turkey soup shaping up?

[GAM]

At 25 lb I'm 2 days away from starting.

Sandy

[Jimmy]

We gave the 2 carcasses away from our turkey diner...I've never really made much for soups.

[redoubt]

Our turkey soup is fucking delicious.

-Kirsten

[canuck]

I'm 1-2 days as well from being ready to boil the carcass for our turkey soup.

[GuingesRock]

Our turkey soup is fucking delicious.

-Kirsten

Yeah. I know, you are vegetarians. What did you have for x-mas dinner? Can you put the left overs in a big pot together on the stove and drink Black Grouse.

[redoubt]

I don't know how good pizza soup would be...

-Keely

[GuingesRock]

Sounds better than my turkey soup might turn out to be : https://www.google.ca/search?q=pizza+so ... 66&bih=674" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[redoubt]

I didn't know pizza soup was a thing. It does look pretty tasty though!

-Keely

[GuingesRock]

Kathleen is trying out being a vegetarian at New Years, and I’ll probably be going that way by default a bit. I’m looking forward to some interesting stuff. I think I could be a vegetarian if I could eat cheese all the time, there are so many delicious cheeses. I ate a whole lot of cheese for a few weeks and then got my cholesterol checked. It didn’t budge an inch. Still one of the best in town. I’m getting more and more confused about this eating thing. There’s more myths in eating than there are in brewing. I do believe bread, refined carbs (flour and sugar) are really bad things, and I’m not sure red meat is all that good for people.

I don’t suppose you would post some pictures and recipes of vegetarian meals in the what’s cooking thread, or even maybe a vegetarian thread.

[mr x]

We gave the 2 carcasses away from our turkey diner...I've never really made much for soups.

Smoked turkey makes the most kickass soup. And extremely easy to do. I use the wings, some random scraps and the backbone with some veggies/spices and it's fantastic.

[redoubt]

I don’t suppose you would post some pictures and recipes of vegetarian meals in the what’s cooking thread, or even maybe a vegetarian thread.

Sure, Mark! We'll post pics/recipes whenever we have anything really tasty.

-Keely

[canuck]

Kathleen is trying out being a vegetarian at New Years, and I’ll probably be going that way by default a bit. I’m looking forward to some interesting stuff. I think I could be a vegetarian if I could eat cheese all the time, there are so many delicious cheeses. I ate a whole lot of cheese for a few weeks and then got my cholesterol checked. It didn’t budge an inch. Still one of the best in town. I’m getting more and more confused about this eating thing. There’s more myths in eating than there are in brewing. I do believe bread, refined carbs (flour and sugar) are really bad things, and I’m not sure red meat is all that good for people.

I don’t suppose you would post some pictures and recipes of vegetarian meals in the what’s cooking thread, or even maybe a vegetarian thread.

Take a look at some of Nash's pics, I believe most of them are Vegetarian!

[GuingesRock]

I might be wrong, but I don’t think NASH cares either way, as long as it’s delicious. He can correct me if I’m wrong. http://www.brewnosers.org/forums/viewto ... 250#p80583" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

My turkey soup turned out well…as an afterthought, some cashew nuts in there would be nice also.

[Jimmy]

I don’t suppose you would post some pictures and recipes of vegetarian meals in the what’s cooking thread, or even maybe a vegetarian thread.

Sure, Mark! We'll post pics/recipes whenever we have anything really tasty.

-Keely

I'd like to see these too

[CorneliusAlphonse]

. I ate a whole lot of cheese for a few weeks and then got my cholesterol checked. It didn’t budge an inch. Still one of the best in town. I’m getting more and more confused about this eating thing. There’s more myths in eating than there are in brewing. I do believe bread, refined carbs (flour and sugar) are really bad things, and I’m not sure red meat is all that good for people.

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

No turkey here, moving on tomorrow. Bremen for a day to visit a friend then berlin. then Prague

[canuck]

. I ate a whole lot of cheese for a few weeks and then got my cholesterol checked. It didn’t budge an inch. Still one of the best in town. I’m getting more and more confused about this eating thing. There’s more myths in eating than there are in brewing. I do believe bread, refined carbs (flour and sugar) are really bad things, and I’m not sure red meat is all that good for people.

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

No turkey here, moving on tomorrow. Bremen for a day to visit a friend then berlin. then Prague

Liam, very interested in your thoughts on Prague......have fun man!

[Becky]

We gave the 2 carcasses away from our turkey diner...I've never really made much for soups.

Smoked turkey makes the most kickass soup. And extremely easy to do. I use the wings, some random scraps and the backbone with some veggies/spices and it's fantastic.

I've made soup with a smoked turkey carcass. I'm so great in the kitchen that it was bland as all heck, AND Jimmy put me on probation from our new stove because apparently I was messy.....whatever.... lol

[CorneliusAlphonse]

. I ate a whole lot of cheese for a few weeks and then got my cholesterol checked. It didn’t budge an inch. Still one of the best in town. I’m getting more and more confused about this eating thing. There’s more myths in eating than there are in brewing. I do believe bread, refined carbs (flour and sugar) are really bad things, and I’m not sure red meat is all that good for people.

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

No turkey here, moving on tomorrow. Bremen for a day to visit a friend then berlin. then Prague

Liam, very interested in your thoughts on Prague......have fun man!

Haha I will let you know! Wasn't sure if I would be making a stop but it looks like yes.

[GAM]

We gave the 2 carcasses away from our turkey diner...I've never really made much for soups.

Smoked turkey makes the most kickass soup. And extremely easy to do. I use the wings, some random scraps and the backbone with some veggies/spices and it's fantastic.

I've made soup with a smoked turkey carcass. I'm so great in the kitchen that it was bland as all heck, AND Jimmy put me on probation from our new stove because apparently I was messy.....whatever.... lol

Salt, peppers and savory/sage/marjoram.

Should perk it up.

Sandy

[CorneliusAlphonse]

Bay leaf!! Every soup needs a bay leaf

[mr x]

I've made soup with a smoked turkey carcass. I'm so great in the kitchen that it was bland as all heck, AND Jimmy put me on probation from our new stove because apparently I was messy.....whatever.... lol

You need a bit of salt in there. Thyme/bay leaves/pepper works for me for spice.

Or go all out and fuck him up with this recipe.

http://www.theendlessmeal.com/thai-coconut-turkey-soup/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[CorneliusAlphonse]

/bay leaves/

[Jimmy]

I've made soup with a smoked turkey carcass. I'm so great in the kitchen that it was bland as all heck, AND Jimmy put me on probation from our new stove because apparently I was messy.....whatever.... lol

You need a bit of salt in there. Thyme/bay leaves/pepper works for me for spice.

Or go all out and fuck him up with this recipe.

http://www.theendlessmeal.com/thai-coconut-turkey-soup/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That actually looks pretty damn good.

[mumblecrunch]

Mine's starting to look pretty alright although it may need to simmer overnight.

Father-in-law decided a 30lb bird was the way to go this year. Small pig in one end, half a bakery in the other. The bottom rack on my oven was bowing with the weight. Twelve adults ate their fill last night and took home leftovers; f-i-l was back to visit today and carved off another big bag of meat. I pulled another 2.25kg off it later this evening. I told him next year he should quit friggin' around and just get an emu.

My wife is a vegetarian and has been for almost 20 years. She's ovo-lacto, so she eats dairy and eggs, but no other animal products (except honey, I guess). She'll generally cook meat for myself and our two boys (3 and 5), but there are limits to that (she'd rather not hand-form hamburgers, fr'instance). We eat vegetarian meals at least half the nights each week. I'm welcome ask for meat inclusion or add it myself, but generally it takes more time than its worth and those meals are all complete (and tasty!) without it. Going vegetarian does make it hard to go low/slow carb unless you're already used to a lot of legumes and other sources of protein.

I love meat, but I tend to agree with Mark Bittman (former NYT food writer):

[A]lthough being a principled, all-or-nothing vegetarian [is] not a course of action that would ever likely inspire the majority of Americans, the days of all-meat-all-the-time (or, to be slightly less extreme, of a diet heavily dependent on meat) [cannot] go on. Averaging a consumption of two pounds a week or more of meat (as Americans do) is not sustainable, either for the earth or our planet.