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Post Holidaze Turkey Soup

You know the feeling when you just really want to go to bed but have this big turkey carcass and an unholy mess to deal with? Solve all your problems and amaze your friends with how organized you are.

Ingredients:
  • One turkey carcass
  • One onion
  • Whatever leftovers still look good to you.
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Seasonings to taste and depending on leftovers.
Method:

Here's the real beauty of this. This soup isn't so much about soup - it's about having less work to do and the soup is just a bonus. The only rule is that you can do whatever you want, but these tips will help it turn out:

  • Cut up on onion and put it in a really really big pot. If you're motivated, you can lightly cook this in some butter or an oil you like the taste of but you're likely not so just put it in raw. This soup is about avoiding work, remember? If you're really motivated you should technically cut carrot and celery too but again, avoid work.
  • You know the carcass? Put it in the really big pot with the onion and put a bunch of water in it. "But the skin" you protest. Dump it in. "The neck?" Yep. I don't put the organs in, otherwise I scrape the cutting board in.
  • Add salt and pepper. Boil the heck out of the carcass and the onion. Skim the fat and start removing the skin. You'll know when.
  • The water level will drop, the smell will change and it will start to smell like soup instead of boiling a bunch of bones, skin and turkey in a pot. Reduce the heat.
  • Take a thing (any thing) and start fishing the carcass, the boiled to slime onion and the bones out. What kind of thing? Chances are your choices in utensils are limited now so there's a good chance you'll improvise something with a chopstick, spoon and gravy strainer.
  • You know the leftovers? Dump them in the pot. Ideally you will have reduced the heat long enough before that you don't burn yourself but heck, it's post holidays and you've been scrubbing burned gravy off grandma's sauce pan for the last thirty minutes so if you scald yourself it's just flavour. Mashed potatoes are good, carrots are amazing, stuffing is remarkably good, turnips bring the flavour. Cranberry sauce, anything with whipped cream or gelatin (especially if it has carrots) and anything that calls for Miracle Whip is a no.
  • Cook it until the leftovers are hot, taste it, adjust seasoning and embrace the warmth of knowing that you didn't have to pawn leftovers (and all your food storage containers) off on relatives.