Wednesday, December 10, 2008

A Giant Pot 'O' Pancake Soup


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:

Queen B said...

Yeah. I got nothing. Maybe a side of scrambled eggs?

Robin Lambright said...

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

larkswing said...

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.

Dena said...

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'.

2nd Cup of Coffee said...

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.

Chel's Leaving a Legacy said...

That's WAY beyond area of expertise I might be able to claim.

Sheesh.

Thanks for the HONKIN laugh, though! :-)