Tastes Like Food

My man was feeling a little under the weather, so I decided to make some homemade soup. Whole Foods had turkey legs on sale, so Turkey soup was the order of the day. Making soup from scratch (stock and all) is really easy, it just takes a little time…

Stock Ingredients

• 1 turkey drumstick
• 1 small onion, quartered
• 2 carrots chopped in halves or quarters
• 3 stalks celery cut in half
• lots of water

The drumstick went right in a large pot covered with water, and I added water as it cooked when the water level dipped below the top of the drumstick. I made the stock over the course of about three hours, skimming off the funk on top periodically. Then, I strained the stock, discarded the vegetables, and set aside some choice meat from the turkey leg.

Soup Ingredients

• 6-8 cups stock
• 1/4 onion thinly sliced and chopped
• 1 carrot thinly sliced
• 1 stalk celery thinly sliced
• 2 tbs fresh parsley
• turkey pulled from drumstick

I combined the above ingredients. I didn’t have any white meat turkey on hand, but would definitely recommend it, if you make your own turkey soup.

Dumplings

• 1 egg
• generous 1 cup flour
• cold water

Finally, I kneaded the above ingredients into an ever so slightly sticky dough ball. When the turkey soup was hot (but not boiling), I dropped in chunks of dough. After about 3 or 4 minutes, the dough was cooked and turkey soup was served!