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"jmcquown" > wrote:

> elaine wrote:
> > My vote goes for turkey. Today instead of buying my usual chicken
> > legs, I bought a couple of turkey thighs. I'm making leek & potato
> > soup. The pets are hovering - they always seem to appear when I'm
> > taking the meat off the bones!
> >
> > e.
>
> Depends on the soup. I sure wouldn't use turkey legs or chicken if I wanted
> to make a beef soup. For potato & leek, chicken or turkey, certainly.
>
> If you want a neutral stock, make vegetable stock. Toss those things you
> would normally discard into a gallon sized zip-lock bag and freeze them.
> Celery leaves. The ends of carrots with tops. The cut off portion of
> onions. Same thing with the ends of garlic heads. The snapped off portion
> of asparagus stalks. Ditto the ends of celery stalks. Keep adding to the
> mix in a gallon sized zipped freezer bag until you have enough to fill up
> the bag. Freeze them.
>
> Now you can thaw them out and make vegetable stock which, with water and
> little seasoning such as a couple of bay leaves, pepper and some salt
> works, with a lot of things
>
> Jill

I've been considering doing that.
Sounds like a most excellent idea!

I've only ever saved Asparagus stems. The rest of that stuff (except for
celery leaf which always gets used in mixed stock) went into the compost.
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