Turkey Soup

I was really hungry today, so after Church my daughter and I decided to go to our local grocery store to pick up a few things. A very bad idea as I came home with: a whole chicken, sweet sausage, cube steak and the fixings for soup. So as I was making lunch for my very hungry five year old, I was also cooking wings, previously marinated in teriyaki sauce, marinating the chicken and cube steak, while seasoning my Turkey soup (with the last of my 16lb Thanksgiving Turkey).

My soup consists of:
Turkey bones and leftover meat
2 cups chicken stock
1 chicken bouillon
Egg noodles
3 potatoes
2 carrots
Tarragon
Kosher salt
Thyme
Paprika
3 garlic cloves
A few pieces of Squash
¼ lb pancetta

I added all the items to a stockpot, while I fried the pancetta in a skillet. After the pancetta was cooked, I minced it and added it to the soup. I added the noodles five minutes before I removed the soup from the stove. The only thing I did not have was allspice; my mother never makes soup without it. The soup came out great, although mom would have notice the missing key ingredient.

Most of the items were left over from my Thanksgiving dinner; I have a really hard time throwing food away, so making the soup was a great way to salvage all the items.





What did you do with your thanksgiving leftovers?