Small purplish iris by me
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Small purplish iris
Author: isaac
I like cats and compost.
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Tiger lily close-up
Tiger lily close-up by me
That last post sure looks pretty silly after the huge pile of snow that just fell on us. We ended up with about 20 inches with deeper drifts in places. We dug out our sidewalk and cars yesterday, but the street still hasn’t been cleared. Thanks to our fearless neighbors it’s all packed down though, slippery but passable.
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Slushpocalypse
Our little shared joke in the DC area in the winter is that whenever it snows the littlest bit the world is coming to an end. This season’s first earth-destroying event arrived a week or so ago, bringing us a nice layer of slushy snow that stuck around for a day or two.
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Turkey soup
We got a turkey a whole week before Thanksgiving for some reason, so I brined and roasted it as practice for doing it again at a friend’s house next week. It turns out even a 15 pound turkey has quite a bit of meat on it, so I’ve been making turkey dishes all week.
Turkey soup is really easy to make if you can manage to make some turkey stock after carving the bird. To make stock, just simmer the carcass in water a while. You can add things like peppercorns, allspice, onion, celery, carrot, etc. if you want to and are not completely burned out on cooking. I cool the stock a while then strain it into something for the fridge. You can remove the fat from the top the next day.
For the soup, soften some vegetables like onions, celery, cabbage, and so on in butter over medium-low heat. Add some chunks of turkey and some stock and simmer a little while. I serve it with grated cheese and homemade Worcestershire sauce.