Kingantz
Growing too fast.
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Thanks Phil! I should probably be getting the box tomorrow since Brian is so close. I'll post as soon as it arrives. Shooter, you ready?
As far as learning something new, I have really racked my brain for something...anything that I could possibly convey that is "new". I actually couldn't come up with anything to speak of, however there was one thing that happened this Thanksgiving that to me was new, at least to me. So, here goes!
Some years ago, the wife and I would always have our families come to our home for both Thanksgiving and Christmas where I would cook a meal suited for at least a couple dozen people. Long story short, things happened and unfortunately our families no longer come for the holiday meal. The past several years the wife and I have spent the holidays it being just the two of us, and of course now we have Jessica. :love: I've continued to cook a huge meal at Thanksgiving and of course, eat Thanksgiving for a good week or so after and always have turkey that we can never seem to finish eating and usually end up giving to the animals.
This year, we all came down with the flu, the wife and baby girl Thanksgiving day and me a day or so after. We're really down and out from the nastiness and it's cold and gloomy out. The wife looks at me and says, "I sure wish we had some hot soup." Hmmm. Soup. I rummage around in the kitchen just looking at different ingredients to see if there's anything I could whip up and as I open up the fridge, there's a golden light eminating from the tupperware full of turkey! :laugh: Well, that's the way it seemed as the idea struck me, turkey soup!
I took two sticks of margarine and melted it in a huge pot. Chopped and diced up an entire bunch of celery, two cups of onion, and two cups of carrots and then sauteed all in the margarine until tender. I then added alternately six cups of sifted flour with four quarts of broth (used chicken as it's all I had at the time), adding just a little at the time keeping it boiling while adding. I also added a tablespoon of salt, a teaspoon of white pepper, a teaspoon of Thyme, and a quarter cup of parsley. While this concoction was simmering, I chopped up probably a pound and a half to two pounds of turkey and carefully put it in the soup. At the end I added a quart of milk as I like creamy soup.
It turned out excellent! Just what the doctor ordered for our nasty colds. I also cut up some fresh French bread into little cubes and sauteed them with some butter and garlic salt for croutons. I know now what to do with any leftover turkey from now on! Learned something new!
Thanks Phil for letting me play in your pass and hopefully the Turkey Soup will work as having learned something new this year.
As far as learning something new, I have really racked my brain for something...anything that I could possibly convey that is "new". I actually couldn't come up with anything to speak of, however there was one thing that happened this Thanksgiving that to me was new, at least to me. So, here goes!
Some years ago, the wife and I would always have our families come to our home for both Thanksgiving and Christmas where I would cook a meal suited for at least a couple dozen people. Long story short, things happened and unfortunately our families no longer come for the holiday meal. The past several years the wife and I have spent the holidays it being just the two of us, and of course now we have Jessica. :love: I've continued to cook a huge meal at Thanksgiving and of course, eat Thanksgiving for a good week or so after and always have turkey that we can never seem to finish eating and usually end up giving to the animals.
This year, we all came down with the flu, the wife and baby girl Thanksgiving day and me a day or so after. We're really down and out from the nastiness and it's cold and gloomy out. The wife looks at me and says, "I sure wish we had some hot soup." Hmmm. Soup. I rummage around in the kitchen just looking at different ingredients to see if there's anything I could whip up and as I open up the fridge, there's a golden light eminating from the tupperware full of turkey! :laugh: Well, that's the way it seemed as the idea struck me, turkey soup!
I took two sticks of margarine and melted it in a huge pot. Chopped and diced up an entire bunch of celery, two cups of onion, and two cups of carrots and then sauteed all in the margarine until tender. I then added alternately six cups of sifted flour with four quarts of broth (used chicken as it's all I had at the time), adding just a little at the time keeping it boiling while adding. I also added a tablespoon of salt, a teaspoon of white pepper, a teaspoon of Thyme, and a quarter cup of parsley. While this concoction was simmering, I chopped up probably a pound and a half to two pounds of turkey and carefully put it in the soup. At the end I added a quart of milk as I like creamy soup.
It turned out excellent! Just what the doctor ordered for our nasty colds. I also cut up some fresh French bread into little cubes and sauteed them with some butter and garlic salt for croutons. I know now what to do with any leftover turkey from now on! Learned something new!
Thanks Phil for letting me play in your pass and hopefully the Turkey Soup will work as having learned something new this year.
I think it is pretty important as an outside observer to realize most of us in this pass know each other fairly well. I have personally herfed with more than half the people on the list. My point is that it is fair to say some of the heckling and the freedom in terms of both puts and takes probably are more prominent in this pass than you would expect to see in others. It is all about having a good time amongst friends.
I would've loved to have had a go at that thing.
