BONE BROTH:
1 big turkey carcass
Pick over the whole thing. Break up the bones and put those, the skin, neck and other extra body parts in a big pot with some carrot, celery, onion, salt, pepper, bay leaf and any other seasonings you like.
Put the meat aside for the soup and other recipes. Make a little bowl if the 'icky' edibles you don't want to use, for your dogs. Simmer the bones, skin and the broth vegetables, stirring occasionally for a couple hours.
Cool, scoop out all the solids, save the carrot and celery for your dinner or chop that up for your dogs. Pour this through a strainer throwing away anything it catches and chill the rest. After 8 hours or so, scrape off the fat. Use that, throw it away or add it - a little at a time - to your dog's dry food.
THE SOUP:
Sauté the fresh vegetables shown here, with garlic and pepper, for your soup. Wait on the soup base, frozen peas and green onion tops, until the end.
When the vegetables are crisp-tender, add the bone broth and simmer a half hour. Stir in a couple tablespoons of powdered soup base and check the flavor. The ground pepper here is very strong, so mine ended up way too peppery. At this point I added stewed tomatoes from a 28oz. can. ONLY the tomatoes, cut up, saving the juice for another recipe. I also stirred in 1c sour cream. This was to correct the pepperiness, but it also added a really nice dimension to the soup.
I cooked 8 oz. thin spaghetti -separately- for those who aren't gluten sensitive, to add to their bowl. For those who are, they can eat it as is, without the pasta. You could also cook and add a recipe of white, brown, or wild rice.
Every soup is an adventure! Even having cooked as many years as I have, I'm often surprised by the results. This turned out well though.
Have fun with it. . .Be Adventurous. If something unexpected happens. . .Change The Plan! . .Lin
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