Turkey Soup...

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It didn't snow last night!.. thank eff!.. today the weather has been great...  Chris and I ran out super early this morning and picked up a few things at the grocery store for the week and then to Home Depot for a few plants and the deck wash to prep the deck before we re-stain it... We washed off all of the deck furniture and the deck...  tomorrow it's supposed to be 18 degrees... so I'm thinking we'll get to staining tomorrow evening... I'm heading into work this evening... blaaahhh...

Last night I took last week's roasted turkey bones...  that were tossed in the freezer last weekend...  I put them in my big pot and covered them with cold water... then simmered them with a quartered onion, a couple of carrots, rosemary, thyme, bay leaves and some coarse salt and a few peppercorns... for four hours...  it was late when that was done so I threw the pot in the fridge for the night with everything left in it...

After we got home this morning I got the pot out of the fridge and back on the stove... picked out all of the bones and large pieces... then strained the liquid though a metal mesh strainer to get all of the skin bits and small bones out... 

Yay for spring and easy access to my composter... I saved all of the peels and end bits of the veggies for the composter...

I put the broth back on simmer and then threw in some turnip, carrots, celery, onion, rosemary, thyme, salt and pepper...

I used about equal amount of the veggies... after a couple hours of simmering while we were out working on cleaning the deck and repairing the vole damage in the yard I threw in about 3/4 of a cup of rice and then ripped up and threw in a large amount of turkey that we also had left over and frozen...

After another hour it was ready to eat... it was sooo delicious

... it smelled like "home" in the house all day... and by home I mean my Momma's house when she's making turkey soup!.. or when my Nan used to make turkey soup... I can't wait for lunch tomorrow... turkey soup and buttered bread!..

Loves A Long Weekend!..

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Who doesn't!?. Accomplished quite a bit... that small table... the second wingback chair is now stripped and in the process of being refoamed and reupholstered... hopefully I can get it completed now over the next couple of nights... we'll see how that goes... I'm paying dearly for the sanding and staple removal now... my forearm and finger tendons are sore and my knuckles are just aching... one year sculpting using pneumatic tools just hooped my arm and finger tendons...

I grabbed a quick shot of the front room that is in the process of being revamped... you can see the second wingback chair that I'm working on now in the bottom left of the picture... I still need to make the cushion cover for the first chair that is at the top left... Ooo... and all of that other clutter up in the top right in there are upcoming projects... stay tuned for those!.. 

I've really begun to build up supplies now after the past couple weeks... paints and paint gun... sand papers... I'm thinking I'm soon going to need a storage box or tool box perhaps...

I got these two shots on Saturday while we were at the neibs for Turkey Dins... The above shot is Sadie and the one below is Indy...

They're just the sweetest pups...  And here are a few food shots from the weekend...  lots of food was cooked, baked and eaten!..

Potatoes to be riced... I love this colander...

The all important TURKEY!.. Om nom nom nom...

Peas pudding... if you've never had this you must try it... I boiled ours for a couple hours with a cut up onion, salt and beef oxo in the water... we didn't have salt meat to throw in the pot while the peas were cooking... and then I use my stick blender to puree them smooth with lots of butter, salt and pepper... Mmm...

Meaty stuffing!.. this was our first time eating meat stuffing... um... its delish...

And I had to nab a shot of one of Amy's beautiful knives...

Yesterday was leftover turkey time... OMG!.. Fries with dressing and gravy and an open faced hot turkey sandwich... LEFTOVER HEAVEN!..

And throughout the day yesterday turkey soup was simmering away... after I roasted the carcass and cooked it down with veggies for four hours to make the stock... can't wait for turkey soup tonight!..

What do you do with your turkey leftovers?..