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On turkey soup and books for sale

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I’ve been making turkey soup with the leftovers from Thanksgiving, which this year in my case amounts to about 95% of a cooked turkey. Turkey soup always sounds so easy, and is one of the reasons I like to make a turkey for Thanksgiving. But I keep forgetting that the soup part is fairly labor-intensive, although very rewarding.

It’s important to find a pot big enough. The prep requires a lot of cutting of carrots and other veggies. The cooking takes many hours, and then there’s the taking the meat off the bones once it’s pretty much falling apart. In go leftover green beans and a bit of leftover stuffing (most of the stuffing was demolished on Thanksgiving Day). Hey, let’s even dump in a scoop of leftover mashed sweet potatoes for thickening, and a spoonful of cranberry sauce. Why not? Gravy, too. Be creative – in the end, it always tastes good. And the rest of the turkey meat – there’s plenty more – makes turkey salad sandwiches for days.

While I’m doing that, I want to remind you to use the Amazon portal here for Amazon gifts. You might be interested in this book by Eric Trump; I haven’t read it, but I heard him interviewed about it. It’s an account of what the Trump family went through during the years out of power and under siege – which is the book’s title.

But I also especially want to remind you that Gerard Vanderleun’s essay book, still available through the Vanderleun Books website here, is a handsome volume that makes an entertaining read and is a great gift (if I do say so myself, which I do). It’s not political, so you can even give it to liberals on your list. There are only a couple of hardcovers left, but there are plenty of non-flimsy paperbacks.

What’s more, pretty soon the Vanderleun poetry book will be available. I know I’ve said that before, and I was hoping it would be ready by November 1. But I ran into unforeseen formatting trouble and once that was fixed I ran into some difficulties with the printer. Now I’m awaiting book proofs from two different printers, and once I make that decision – hopefully in a week or even less – I’ll make the big announcement that it’s ready for ordering.

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On turkey soup and books for sale — 13 Comments

  1. I was shocked to learn that the women of my husband’s family did not make turkey soup.

    I have added to my mother’s routine (a lot like yours, Neo), simmering the turkey carcass in purchased chicken broth. This makes a very rich, flavorful soup base.

  2. Neo, I had previously been using this link for your Amazon portal:
    https://www.neoneocon.com/2012/07/20/amazon-portal
    but now I get an error message “Error establishing a database connection”
    Is it no longer operable?

    I can and now do use the link under your Donate button successfully [even though it brings up the Sowell books info first]:
    Please click the link recommended books and search bar for Amazon purchases through neo.
    https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Thomas+Sowell+books&crid=2RFAGJSBYAWYB&sprefix=thomas+sowell%252Caps%252C1569&ref=nb_sb_noss_1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=neo0b-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=799604fb1a7cb4e8ff71d184bf14b54c&camp=1789&creative=9325

  3. For those of you looking for a book recommendation when using neo’s Amazon portal; I highly recommend David Mamet’s, “Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood.

    Most pages have two or three very funny quips or one-liners and it contains a plethora of great stories involving famous people Mamet has worked with over his extensive career, wonderful insights into how movie making and theater production work and interesting history about old films and film stars.

  4. Gobblers ya’ say?

    As for soup…
    (And, perhaps, how to—hopefully—stay out of it…)

    “The United States Of Delusion;
    “If I looked you in the eye and told you the Rocky Mountains don’t exist, you’d think I was crazy.”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/united-states-delusion

    Key point:

    …This is how real manipulation works.

    Not by controlling your actions, but by controlling the lens you use to see the world. So when reality finally shows up, you treat reality itself as the enemy.

    And that is exactly where America is right now….

    [Emphasis in original; Barry M.]

  6. Are you actually drinking real beer?

    Ran across this pretty surprising analysis of the chemical content of eight very popular beers and, according to the linked report, the cost cutting and manufacturing short cuts used by these companies to create them have resulted in all sorts of substitutes, synthetics, and other chemicals being added to them, plus many also contain pesticide residues.

    This analysis also points out four beer brands which actually test as being just pure beer.*

    * See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV-jA0cdBB8

  7. Thanks for the link,RCP…
    Mamet, Sheen, Ackman…
    …cranking those eyelids open, one by one…

    And then there’s this bombshell (for the still-blind or those who in spite of it all insist on refusing to see)….

    ‘”The Whole Model Is Broken”: ‘Tech Mafia Wife’ Admits ‘We Were Klaus Schwab’s Useful Idiots’’—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/whole-model-broken-tech-mafia-wife-admits-we-were-klaus-schwabs-useful-idiots

    (A bit heavy on the “I’m a victim” side, but nonetheless…she’s basically giving away the store….
    In addition, I wouldn’t call it a “model” but a grandiose plot.

  11. On turkey soup: I guess I do it a bit differently, and lazier.

    -After stripping all the meat, throw the carcass – I include the neck and gizzards – in the crock pot (I have 4 kids, so I have a large one), fill with water, and let simmer overnight on low.
    -In the morning, strain out all the solids, add meat and salt as desired, plus frozen mixed vegetables and simmer until dinner. I also add 1 cup of pearl barley around mid-afternoon. Rice also works.

  12. We had a ham, so it’s bone & scraps with black beans & lentils in the crockpot, heated up on high until hot, then low until 5 or 6 PM.
    It’s amazing, cheap and easy.

  13. The overnight crockpot is a great idea, if you can stand the wonderful smell all over the house while you try to sleep.

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