Sick Boy Turkey Soup

  One of my boys came home not feeling well from school yesterday.  So I whipped up a batch of Turkey soup from the Turkey bone broth I made after eating our turkey dinner on Thanksgiving.  This actually is a recipe from my deceased mother-in-law who was from Italy and always seemed to have a recipe for everything.   Now, translating it to English from Italian is always a challenge, but I'm always pleased once I do the work.  Here is her recipe, I'm sure she didn't go to the lengths of making actual bone broth but because I had already done that I just used the broth I had made.       

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

4 cups homemade or purchased Organic Turkey broth

1 1/2 cups carrots sliced and cut into 1 inch pieces

1 sweet onion, chopped

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 cup Turkey meat, either leftover or just bake a thigh or leg then De-bone and add to the soup

1 cup frozen peas

2 tablespoons fresh Italian parsley added to each bowl when served

Saute chopped onions, carrots, and garlic in olive oil until onions are translucent. Add the broth, and the rest of the ingredients except for the parsley and allow to meld for at least 20 minutes on low.  Before serving add fresh parsley to every bowl and serve.  Godere! 

      

CRAZY Simpile Kale, Parsnip Bone Broth Soup ~ O Blood Type Favorite

  I have a new addiction...It's this soup!  This is seriously AMAZING and CRAZY healthy for you.  First, I'll tell you how I make a beef bone broth, then after this is made and you have frozen some of the broth for other meals.  You can make this yummy soup!  It REALLY is amazing and I just know that the broth is what makes this one a keeper.

 

The Beef Bone Broth

1 cup carrots chopped

1 cup celery chopped

1 yellow onion, chopped

3 beef bones (Larger)

Herbs of your choice (I used Rosemary & Thyme)

5 peppercorns

1 tablespoon vinegar

8 cups of filtered 2water

Place all ingredients in a crock pot and cook on high when you are home and then on low overnight and when you are away.  Do this for 48 hours until the bones start to disintegrate (Flake away). Drain the broth and place into small containers and put in the freezer.  Use for anything.  I use it for Risotto, soups or anything else my little heart desires.

The CRAZY simple Kale, Parsnip Bone Broth Soup

1 cup of beef bone broth

2 green onions chopped

1 parsnip (peeled, chopped into bit size pieces and placed in microwave with a little water to soften.)

2 tablespoon peas (optional)

1 tablespoon kelp flakes (optional)

Dinosaur Kale cut into bite sized pieces (As much as you would like)

Method:

Place all ingredients except for the kale in a microwavable bowl and cook on high for 2 to 3 minutes, depending on how warm your ingredients are.  Just before serving, place the cut up raw kale in the soup and serve at once.  YUMMY!  This is GREAT!  ENJOY!

Cut up Kale..ready to be added!

 

Crock-pot Bone Broth (Chicken)...Made My Way!

A very dear friend sent me the cookbook, "Nourishing Traditions,"  I LOVE the book and have learned more than I can imagine.  One thing I now make regularly is Bone Broth.  It's incredibly easy and makes any soup or risotto or anything else I dream up taste much better than it would if I just used a boxed or canned broth.  When Sally Fallon makes a chicken bone broth her recipe uses chicken parts and not many herbs.  When I make the bone broth I use a whole chicken and add a bunch of things straight out of the herb patch I have, which gives the broth so much more flavor.  Here is my recipe based off of hers:

Here I made a Chicken soup for the boys out of the bone broth

 1 whole organic chicken, including neck, and chicken parts found in cavity

8 cups filtered water

1 onion, peeled and cut in half

1 cup carrots, cut into chunks

1 cup celery sticks (include the leaves, most of the flavor is in the leaves)

Handful fresh parsley (garden)

2 springs rosemary

Handful of fresh thyme (garden)

2 springs fresh sage (garden)

1 teaspoon Celtic sea salt

5 peppercorns

1 tablespoon of vinegar

  Place all ingredients in the crock- pot and set on low for as many hours as your crock-pot goes.  Making sure you're able to turn it back on when the timer stops.  My crock-pot goes for 15 hours.  So I put everything in the crock-pot early evening and let it go until morning and then turn it back on again so it runs another 10 hours until I get home.  With bone broth you want the bones to be almost disintegrating or liquifying (I use that term lightly because I've never seen it totally do that).  At this point you can strain it and use the meat for burritos or even make a quick chicken soup.  This is what I did for my boys and the rest of the broth I will freeze.  Yummy!  It's amazing how much better things taste when you start with a good quality broth.

Closeup of the bone broth!

Yes, I decorate the boys soup... It's always the first thing they take out of the soup!

You can see how different this broth looks...Amazing!

Out of the book Ageless Remedies from Mother's Kitchen I took this quick little excerpt:

"Why is chicken soup superior to all the things we have, even more relaxing than Tylenol?  It is because chicken soup has a natural ingredient which feeds, repairs and calms the mucous lining in the small intestine.  This inner lining is the beginning or ending of the nervous system.  It is easily pulled away from the intestine through too many laxatives, too many food additives...and parasites.  Chicken soup...heals the nerves, improves digestion, reduces allergies, relaxes and gives strength".