Holiday lovely, exhausting
- Laura Moore: Housebroken
- December 6, 2019
- 819
Thanksgiving was lovely and thoroughly enjoyed. There was plenty to eat, and it got eaten. Now all that is left are the turkey bones.
So honoring tradition, we will boil those bones and make soup. My mother-in-law called it bone soup. There are a lot of those bones, so there will be lots of soup.
My Taller Half is not a soup lover, but the dogs and I love it. Our house loves the yummy smells, so most of us are happy.
Because there is just no way to make small amounts of turkey soup, our freezer will store what we don’t eat over the next few post-Thanksgiving days.
Actually we will have enough leftover soup to last until after Christmas unless I can gift some of it to friends and family. The problem is that friends and family have a pot of bone soup boiling on their own stoves. Our dogs have volunteered to eat all the leftovers we don’t or can’t eat. They are such noble, little critters.
Last year we had both turkey and ham left over from Christmas. The meat got frozen and retired to the freezer, the bones got boiled, and the leftover veggies got thrown in the soup pot. Except for stirring the pot, I didn’t have to fix meals for a week — great vacation from cooking. But like all good things, that came to an end.
We also have some pumpkin pies that got overlooked. Guess we just had too many desserts this year. My Taller Half, with the help of our pumpkin-loving dogs, will make sure those pies disappear.
Our house is so pleased with her kitchen. It got the cooking jobs done, and everyone got fed.
It took some work to get that hard-working kitchen cleaned up, but now it’s sparkling clean and ready for the next meal.
Hopefully that next meal will just require heating some bone soup — both kitchen and I are exhausted.