Last year, DH & I celebrated Thanksgiving with one of his cousin's
daughter's family - they live very close to us. I totally forgot that at
the end of the evening last year, the husband walked outside to the garbage
with the stripped turkey carcass in a plastic bag. He was placing it in the
outdoor garbage. DH & I talked about it on the way home - we couldn't
believe he wasn't going to make soup out of it. So - last night, John is
headed out the door with the turkey carcass in a plastic bag - I said,
wait - is that the turkey carcass. He said yes - - - I said, are you
throwing it away - - - yes, he says - - - do you want it. YES!! So into
the refrigerator it went for me to take home. Two minutes later, he is
headed out the back door with a huge bag of garbage. He stopped, looked at
me & said - Do you want the recyclables?? I'll never live it down, but, in
my big soup pot, I have turkey soup/stew almost ready for tonight's dinner!
My husband calls it gruel, because I put lots of veggies in it & one scant
cup of rice & it ends up more stew like, than soup like.

Can't wait till next year's turkey carcass

Pauline
Northern California

"Debra" wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:44:14 -0600, Susan Laity Price
wrote:

My son often cooks turkey breast when he doesn't have time to deal
with the carcass. Yesterday he planned to make rolled turkey breast
for his friends. This is just a simple way of using the boned turkey
breast and rolling the stuffing inside. The breast had been in the
refrigerator for two days. He took it out about 3:00 p.m. and
discovered the center was still frozen. After an hour in water there
was still a little ice in the center. Forget rolling it. He put the
stuffing in the bottom of the pan and cooked the turkey spread flat on
top. Worked well and took much less cooking time. Wasn't as pretty as
a rolled turkey but taste was great. Only problem with boned turkey
breast is no turkey soup the following week.

Susan

A lack of bones is no excuse for not making soup. I just made turkey
soup for the first time in my life and just used left over turkey meat
that had been frozen in some chicken broth and the turkey pan
drippings. It was the most awesome soup I've ever made.

I added mixed veggies, some herbs, and chicken stock, and that was
about it.

I'm cooking my bone in turkey breast in the morning. It only takes
about 2 hours and will feed the two of us for a week. I doesn't get
much better than that!
Debra in VA
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