I've got troubles. Big troubles.
I made a turkey Monday night with all most a couple of the trimmings. But the crowning touch on this bad boy was that I laid nice fat slices of bacon across the turkey and then basted the whole masterpiece with pure Vermont maple syrup (or SIR-UP, as Reader Brenda likes to enunciate) every 30 minutes while it roasted.
I know, right?
Yes, it smelled divine and tasted great, too. Salty-sugary heaven. Just call me Diana Deen. Or Butter-Girl. Or Zocor-Woman. Yeah, that.
Fast forward to today. Soup sounds good. Think I'll use the leftover turkey.
I chop up veggies, the leftover turkey meat and the juices from the turkey that I saved.Sprinkled seasonings. Made a huge pot of soup. This should last for days.
I let it simmer for a while before I tasted it.
As you probably figured out before I did, our soup kinda tastes like breakfast. It tastes like we were pretty liberal in our use of the MAPLE SYRUP from VERMONT.
It is making me gag. And tear up a little bit.
But Rod came home a minute ago and I guess I had hoped he wouldn't notice. Yes, that is what I hoped. I fed him raw meat in a tortilla once(it was an ACCIDENT!) and he didn't notice until I mentioned he had dog-breath. I've done lots of stuff that he didn't notice. I hoped this was one of those times.
Now I wish I would have had the camera ready when he tasted our Breakfast Maple Turkey Vegetable Soup. Breakfast in a bowl. With vegetables and turkey. And syrup. Yummy.
He noticed.
So, any ideas? Any help? I put in turkey gravy mix and sage and more salt.
I prayed. This was going to be dinner for TWO DAYS people.
P.S. If anyone wants to come over, no need to bring dinner items. Or dessert.
HELP!!
6 comments:
Yeah. I got nothing. Maybe a side of scrambled eggs?
I have always heard that potatoes will absorb excess salt in a recipe, maybe it would work for sugar. The only other suggestion would be to punch up the flavor with some heat like smoked chipotle peppers. My other suggestion would be a bit of a process, but you could drain the soup in a large colander and then replace the liquid with new chicken stock. A huge pain but it might save the soup!
It is so disappointing when a recipe does not work out.
We have all had our share of failures. My family will attest to that!
Blessings
Robin
LOL - that is a good story, but a lousy soup, huh? Sorry about that, but I would try some of what Robin mentioned. Then publish your story in Rachel Ray's magazine, I think she has section for cooking mishaps.
I'm betting your dogs won't care what it tastes like. It could be food for them for two days.
Other than that, I got nothin'.
Oh dear. Welcome to my world. I am so tempted to send you cookies. But then I'd sabotage the wogging. And they'd probably arrive in crumbs.
That's WAY beyond area of expertise I might be able to claim.
Sheesh.
Thanks for the HONKIN laugh, though! :-)
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