It's been gorgeous here lately, but not today! Last night it was so cold we had to put our down comforter back on the bed.
Coincidentally, we had a turkey carcass in the fridge--well, part of a carcass, it was the leftovers from a turkey breast. We also had some chicken bones left from John's birthday dinner; he made curry and de-boned the breasts himself and I froze the unused part. So into the soup pot they went, along with an entire onion--skin and all--an entire bulb of garlic, skin and all, a handful of old mushrooms, some peppercorns, sea salt and a dried-up hand of ginger. I love stock for using stuff like this up that I couldn't otherwise use, and making it delicious, too.
I make stock using a pot just like this one: A pasta pot. Yes! It makes sense. I'm not going to want any of the above solids in the final soup. So I put the pasta liner inside the main pot, put all the stuff in that liner, and when it's time to strain I just lift the pasta liner out. Viola! Instantly strained. 
Saves me a lot of burns and swearing straining the stock into another pot.
I'm not at all sure what else is going into this soup. I don't really have any leftover meat from the turkey to speak of. But I have several gorgeous leeks, and I've been asked to put barley in there. So barley leek appears to be the direction we're headed.
I also got a new kombucha scoby last week and have a batch of sweet tea cooling on the stovetop right now so I can start a batch tomorrow. My old friend Gonzales got thrown out when I was in the hospital, and really, can you blame my mom? If I opened up a Corningware casserole and found that floating around not knowing what it was, I'd throw it out too.
And if I don't run out of gas, I'll be making banana bread. I'm determined to not let any produce go to waste and really squeeze the dollars right now, and I have a hand of bananas past their prime. Though I just noted the time. It may need to wait till tomorrow. If it works, I'll post the recipe, since I'm making it with spelt.
Update: Yep. Outta gas. But! I did put up the soup recipe.
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