Leftover Turkey!

This was so good I just had to share!  I'm sure many of you like me have a ton of leftover turkey. The day after Christmas is easy, we just make a plate up again with all the sides, like yummy mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing, cranberry sauce etc. Then later in the day we'll probably have cold turkey sandwiches. But after that, what to do with the turkey? I decided to search online for some turkey soup recipes - I just felt in the mood for soup ;-) I found this one, Creamy Wild-Rice Soup with Smoked Turkey it sounded pretty good, and although my turkey wasn't smoked, I knew it probably wouldn't make much of a difference.

I didn't follow the recipe exactly, just used it more as an idea. . . here's my soup:

Basically all I did was saute an onion in a large skillet, then instead of adding carrots and celery I added about a cup and a half of frozen mixed veg! After that I added two tbsp of all purpose flour, then added a large carton of chicken stock. To that I added two cups of chopped turkey, and some 1/2 and 1/2 cream I had left over from making the mashed potatoes, not sure how much I used, I'm guessing about 1 cup. I made my Zatarins Long Grain and Wild rice packet seperately, then when it was cooked I added about half of the rice to the soup, turned it low and let it simmer for half an hour.

I have to tell you, the smell in the kitchen was delicious, even Jason shouted from his office "what are you making, it smells so good!"  So, if it's cold and wet, or snowy where you are (or even if it's not!) try making a nice hot batch of creamy turkey soup, it's total comfort food :-)

I'll be back tomorrow with more Christmas Day photos (for you Nenna) :-)