Turkeys For 2013

[kuntrygirl]

Has anyone ever made turkey soup?

In my opinion, homemade soups are one of the easiest and most delicious thing you can make, especially great for winter. We like our soups thick with lots of ingredients. The store bought canned soups are too much broth and not enough good stuff and tend to be too salty. Make your own and you can control what goes in them. The nice thing about soups is you don't really need a recipe!
Especially for turkey or chicken vegetable soup. Just keep adding what you want and season until it tastes right to you. Add noodles at the end so they don't get too soggy. Add barley at the beginning since it needs about 2 hours of simmer to tenderize. Carrots, onions, celery, leeks, peas just some of the goodies I like to add. Season with sage, salt, pepper, rosemary...many more options depending on your likes.

Years ago after I had moved across country and started cooking more on my own, I cooked my first turkey and pressure cooked the bones for broth and called my Dad asking for advice on how to make turkey soup. He was big into making homemade soups. So he gave me ideas on what to put in it but didn't mention the meat. He called back in 5 minutes and said "do remember to put some chopped turkey meat in". That was funny.

I agree.

I was just online looking for recipes but I thought (like you just said), that I will put in my own ingredients and put in what I like. I think that's what I"ll do.

Thanks for the tip on the barely. I had no idea.

LOL @ do remember to put some chopped turkey meat in. too funny.

 

[Celie]

Every Thanksgiving, when my daughters were growing up, we would eat the leftover white meat the weekend after Thanksgiving on sandwiches, but they would not eat the dark meat that way. So, the day after thanksgiving, it became a tradition in our house to make a roughly thrown together "soup" using the left over veggies, like broccoli, corn, peas ,tossing in some carrots, most of the left over gravy with all the pan dripping , all the dark meat and adding toward the end egg noodles. Years after the girls were grown, with families of their own, my older daughter called the day after Thanksgiving, asking for the recipe for that great soup that I made every Friday after Thanksgiving! Funny, because her younger sister, who was my picky eater, called her for it and she couldn't remember, but was craving it so bad and could only remember how good she remember it was and that she gave me a hard time about eating dark meat of the turkey! Funny how tastes change and how you remember, Mom's cooking, when you get older! LOL Both girls will cook a whole turkey now, just to have dark meat for their traditional Friday soup, or use left over white meat, if they just cook a turkey breast!

 

[Celie]

Being from the South, I brine with 1 can cheap frozen apple juice, thawed, 1quart water, with 1/2 cup dark brown sugar and 1 cup kosher salt, dissolved and cooled, 1/2 T red pepper or cayenne, 1 T savory, 1T rubbed sage, 1t marjoram, 1t rosemary, 2 large onions pealed and quartered, a whole head of garlic cut in half through the center, to expose the insides, and after putting in your turkey, cover with water just over the top of turkey, put a lid on and refrigerate for 1 day, I usually use a chest filled with ice, because the brining bucket is too big for the frig. Open the bucket every few hours and swish the turkey up and down, to make sure the seasoning stays mixed up. Be sure after all brining, to rinse thoroughly, or your turkey will be too salty!
Sometimes without brining, I just stuff the bird with a large onion or 2 quartered, a few carrots and a head of pealed garlic cloves, but I am from the South, where we usually use a lot of onion and garlic!

 

[TexasLisa]

Being from the South, I brine with 1 can cheap frozen apple juice, thawed, 1quart water, with 1/2 cup dark brown sugar and 1 cup kosher salt, dissolved and cooled, 1/2 T red pepper or cayenne, 1 T savory, 1T rubbed sage, 1t marjoram, 1t rosemary, 2 large onions pealed and quartered, a whole head of garlic cut in half through the center, to expose the insides, and after putting in your turkey, cover with water just over the top of turkey, put a lid on and refrigerate for 1 day, I usually use a chest filled with ice, because the brining bucket is too big for the frig. Open the bucket every few hours and swish the turkey up and down, to make sure the seasoning stays mixed up. Be sure after all brining, to rinse thoroughly, or your turkey will be too salty!
Sometimes without brining, I just stuff the bird with a large onion or 2 quartered, a few carrots and a head of pealed garlic cloves, but I am from the South, where we usually use a lot of onion and garlic!

I use LOTS of onion and garlic! I believe my family was raised on garlic!! My husband cringes when he sees me cutting up garlic. I keep telling him the food doesn't have any taste without garlic!! (He loves my cooking!)

Lisa

 

[uphilljill]

You guys are making me HUNGRY!

Can't wait for Thanksgiving. It's one of our favorite holidays. I usually start making broth as soon as dinner's done. (Better than trying to fit a whole turkey in my fridge.)

 

[Celie]

BTW, I would like to warn everyone out there about a new GANG GAME, where thugs are going around walking up behind people, in public, punching them as hard as they can in the back of the head and video taping it and posting it on the net! Doesn't matter if it is a man, woman or CHILD, they are trying to see if they can punch hard enough the person out, and usually do! People are even being killed and they don't care if you are holding an infant or pregnant! Be careful out there on the streets and FOX news at 6pm tonight, central time, on the Greta Van Susteren show they are having a special report on it. I was told they were mainly targeting anyone who looked Jewish and white, but with gangs, I don't think everyone better watch out. If you are hit in the head hard enough to knock you out, you are also going down and hitting the ground, which can cause further injury and even death! What has this world become??

 

[kuntrygirl]

Being from the South, I brine with 1 can cheap frozen apple juice, thawed, 1quart water, with 1/2 cup dark brown sugar and 1 cup kosher salt, dissolved and cooled, 1/2 T red pepper or cayenne, 1 T savory, 1T rubbed sage, 1t marjoram, 1t rosemary, 2 large onions pealed and quartered, a whole head of garlic cut in half through the center, to expose the insides, and after putting in your turkey, cover with water just over the top of turkey, put a lid on and refrigerate for 1 day, I usually use a chest filled with ice, because the brining bucket is too big for the frig. Open the bucket every few hours and swish the turkey up and down, to make sure the seasoning stays mixed up. Be sure after all brining, to rinse thoroughly, or your turkey will be too salty!
Sometimes without brining, I just stuff the bird with a large onion or 2 quartered, a few carrots and a head of pealed garlic cloves, but I am from the South, where we usually use a lot of onion and garlic!

Sounds delicious!

 

[kuntrygirl]

 
Being from the South, I brine with 1 can cheap frozen apple juice, thawed, 1quart water, with 1/2 cup dark brown sugar and 1 cup kosher salt, dissolved and cooled, 1/2 T red pepper or cayenne, 1 T savory, 1T rubbed sage, 1t marjoram, 1t rosemary, 2 large onions pealed and quartered, a whole head of garlic cut in half through the center, to expose the insides, and after putting in your turkey, cover with water just over the top of turkey, put a lid on and refrigerate for 1 day, I usually use a chest filled with ice, because the brining bucket is too big for the frig. Open the bucket every few hours and swish the turkey up and down, to make sure the seasoning stays mixed up. Be sure after all brining, to rinse thoroughly, or your turkey will be too salty!
Sometimes without brining, I just stuff the bird with a large onion or 2 quartered, a few carrots and a head of pealed garlic cloves, but I am from the South, where we usually use a lot of onion and garlic!

  I use LOTS of onion and garlic!  I believe my family was raised on garlic!!  My husband cringes when he sees me cutting up garlic.  I keep telling him the food doesn't have any taste without garlic!!  (He loves my cooking!)

Lisa

I would love your cooking also. I LOVE LOVE LOVE onions and garlic.

 

[chicken pickin]

BTW, I would like to warn everyone out there about a new GANG GAME, where thugs are going around walking up behind people, in public, punching them as hard as they can in the back of the head and video taping it and posting it on the net! Doesn't matter if it is a man, woman or CHILD, they are trying to see if they can punch hard enough the person out, and usually do! People are even being killed and they don't care if you are holding an infant or pregnant! Be careful out there on the streets and FOX news at 6pm tonight, central time, on the Greta Van Susteren show they are having a special report on it. I was told they were mainly targeting anyone who looked Jewish and white, but with gangs, I don't think everyone better watch out. If you are hit in the head hard enough to knock you out, you are also going down and hitting the ground, which can cause further injury and even death! What has this world become??

That is absolutely horrifying. I have no idea what is wrong with people out there in the world. But people are just awful.

 

[kuntrygirl]

BTW, I would like to warn everyone out there about a new GANG GAME, where thugs are going around walking up behind people, in public, punching them as hard as they can in the back of the head and video taping it and posting it on the net! Doesn't matter if it is a man, woman or CHILD, they are trying to see if they can punch hard enough the person out, and usually do! People are even being killed and they don't care if you are holding an infant or pregnant! Be careful out there on the streets and FOX news at 6pm tonight, central time, on the Greta Van Susteren show they are having a special report on it. I was told they were mainly targeting anyone who looked Jewish and white, but with gangs, I don't think everyone better watch out. If you are hit in the head hard enough to knock you out, you are also going down and hitting the ground, which can cause further injury and even death! What has this world become?? 

Thanks for the tip.