<\/a>Given that we decided to experiment a bit this year with our side dishes, desserts, and even how we made the turkey for Thanksgiving, I decided to try to be additionally adventurous as the kitchen was being cleaned.<\/p>\n

My mom has long made soups from what seems like just about any meat left on a bone. Ham soup, chicken soup, turkey soup, whatever.<\/p>\n

I’d recently read or heard (can’t remember where) that the start to making turkey soup is simply to leave the turkey carcass in water and boil it for a few hours to make stock.<\/p>\n

Since my mom was here for dinner, I asked for some first hand instructions.<\/p>\n

First thing she told me was to not clean out the pan that we used for gravy. So once we emptied out the leftover gravy, without wiping it down, I put the turkey bones back in and filled it with water.<\/p>\n

<\/a>We started boiling it down and I was surprised that after a short while , the meat that was left on the bones just started to fall right off.<\/p>\n

After a couple of hours, it only took about 15 minutes to pick off the remaining bones and I could have stopped there and still had a great turkey soup.<\/p>\n

But while we made the turkey, we also cooked a ton of carrots, turnips, and onions all around and under the turkey, and then ran all those vegetables through a food processor to make a really tasty paste that sort of looked like baby food. Some of that went into the gravy, but the rest I poured into the broth.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I chopped up four carrots, three stalks of celery, and a big ol’ potato and dropped them into the broth.<\/p>\n

I’m not a big soup fan, but this is looking really good to me.<\/p>\n

The only problem is I’m afraid it’ll make so much that we’ll be eating turkey soup for months!<\/p>\n

I think I’ll be taking over some plentiful helpings of soup to my parents and Jennifer’s folks tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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