Nothing wrong with thriftiness. Carcasses make a fine broth for future dinners.
i know he’s a liberal nut, but this did bring memories of youth.
Crazy Greek :)
I wish the Democrats would treat OUR money like some of them seem to treat THEIR money!
I have never met cheaper people than some democrats when it comes to spending THEIR MONEY.
Democrats can be quite frugal when it’s their own money at stake. When it’s other people’s money they are much less so.
Does Kitty still drink cleaning products in the closet?
Every Thanksgiving, my Mom used to send me to the neighbors to collect their turkey carcasses. She would use them to make soup. She would make gallons of turkey noodle, turkey rice or turkey vegetable soup and send containers of that soup to the neighbors, family and friends. The best comfort food in winter or when I was sick.
Say that ten times real fast.
Dukakis seemed awful at the time. Now...
One of my father’s great joys was to “finish off” the carcass of our T-day bird. After all the leftovers were consumed, he would take the carcass and go to town with it along with a loaf of crusty french bread, and some butter. Sometimes he’d brown the carcass in little butter first. He truly was in all his glory then.
BTW, I may be wrong about this, but I think in New Orleans/Louisiana, there is a gumbo or other stew based around the bones of a turkey. Not sure, but I thought that was the case.
Coffee is not 3 cents a cup at Costco.
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Here’s another tip for turkey broth (and all broths). When
you are boiling up your broth, put a Tablespoon of vinegar
in the pot with the bones. Boil your broth on pretty low
heat for a considerable amount of time.
The vinegar extracts the CALCIUM out from the bones and
into the broth.
Doesn’t everybody make soup out of the carcass? I’ve never heard of collecting the neighbors’ carcasses, however. That seems sort of icky to me! LOL. I don’t know why.
Now, to tell the truth, I’ve never made soup out of the carcasses of the Sam’s, or Costco, BBQ chickens. I guess I eat so many of them that making soup out of the carcass seems like too much trouble. But, I think I’ll try it in the future.
I hope he doesn’t have any Costco chicken lying around — it’s all been recalled since last week for e coli contamination!
I don’t buy the BBQ chickens from Costco anymore because the ones from Sam’s are so much tastier. They use a more flavorful rub.
Dukakis is right about those big BBQ chickens — they will make 10 meals for a couple. And you can’t find a better bargain in the market — $4.95 for a 3+ lb. cooked chicken. I buy at least 1 per week and eat little other meat.
I just did that with the turkey I cooked yesterday. First we literally chew on the bones, getting as much off as we can, then I cooked the bones. I do however, use the broth and meat that cooks off now for dog food. I like a good home made soup though so I might start making them more.
Wondering why he is being brought back to life.
Lived in Massachusetts many year’s off and on. He never struck me as frugal.
From October to about end of March, we usually cook a bird every weekend. By Monday, we have the carcass in a big pot and make soup out of it which will last us through Thursday. Friday night it our night to go to a restaurant and splurge a little.
Turkey or Chicken soup never gets tired when it's cold outside. Sometimes we throw pasta in there, or rice. Acine de pepe is especially good in soup. Lots of vegetables and sometimes potatoes. The small red ones.
I haven't had a cold or flu in about 30 years. I think all the soup has to do with that.
Regarding Dukakis, somebody got it right above. Democrats are very stingy when it's their own money at stake. They throw around nickels like they are manhole covers. But when it's taxpayer money, they will shovel it into the furnace.
Think how things would have changed if Dukakis won. No Bush 41 tearing down Reagan’s accomplishments. No Bush-Clinton NWO alliance. Possibly, a conservative would defeat Dukakis in 1992 and direct the tech revolution. No NAFTA. No Clinton selling America’s technology to the Chinese and North Korea. No stabbing our Slav friends in the Balkans. Possible Russia-America alliance.
Dukakis was a little left but he corralled the Moonbats and had some pragmatic ideas.
I guess what I’m saying is I never liked the Bushes going back to their Nazi days.
COSTCO coffee is really good.
I didn’t care for Dukakis and didn’t vote for him, but I buy coffee at Costco (not sure how much it is per cup, but certainly less expensive than if I bought it at Safeway or Starbucks and I like it better than Folgers and others). I haven’t made a turkey in a long time, but used to always make soup from it or a chicken carcass.
I host Christmas Eve dinner every year and do a ham (Kirkland honey-baked, spiral cut from Costco - yum!) since we’ll have turkey the next day. It’s also easy to fix and keep warm while we go to Mass before family comes over for dinner. I usually use the bone to make split pea soup that we have on New Year’s Day watching football. Makes for an easy, no fuss meal with salad and cornbread and everyone can relax and eat when hungry. Christmas cookies and candies for dessert (my sister and I do a marathon baking weekend the weekend prior to Christmas).