We had an enormous turkey carcass left over at the end of Thanksgiving dinner, so I said “Hey, turkey soup.” The basic idea is simplicity itself– cut the carcass into managable pieces, stick it in a big put, cover it with water, and simmer for a good long while. After an hour or two, you’ve got a big put of soup stock, with stuff floating in it.<\/p>\n
At this point, most recipes suggest straining the stock, to remove the miscellaneous bits of stuff. Which raises the important question: Strain it into what<\/strong>, exactly? The stock is already in the biggest pot that we own, which is at least double the next one down…<\/p>\n Really, I have to stop reading recipes written for people who live in kitchen supply stores…<\/p>\n (I bought some huge Tupperware containers a few days ago, to chill the brine for the turkey overnight, so those were pressed into service, but there was some dark muttering before I remembered those…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We had an enormous turkey carcass left over at the end of Thanksgiving dinner, so I said “Hey, turkey soup.” The basic idea is simplicity itself– cut the carcass into managable pieces, stick it in a big put, cover it with water, and simmer for a good long while. After an hour or two, you’ve… Continue reading Cookbook Conundrum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}