I started with some home made broth from boiling a rotisserie chicken carcass. Some of the chicken meat was returned to the soup. I put raw onions/celery right into the broth. That sat on the stove for about 3hrs. It was plenty hot enough to cook the veggies. Other veggies(corn, canned beans, whatever you like) and chicken were added shortly before eating. So, maybe 4 hrs in total.
Heck yea that’s cooking. We’ll be doing the same next weekend, cooking down the bones from the ribeyes and rotisserie chickens from yesterday’s lunch. Owl
Nice Mike! Bet the house smelled really good with that simmering and the occasional whiff of smoke smell from a reload of the stove.
And again today. Reducing/concentrating the broth. I'll fill containers and find room in the freezer for them.
End product of turkey "jello". I got most of the fat off. They'll be covered, dated, and put into the freezer.
Scrub a sweet potato, poke some holes in it. wrap in foil and place inside the stove directly on the coals. cook 25 mins then flip and cook for 20 more. the best sweet potato I've ever had.
Turkey soup day! Sauted onions, celery, carrot, and garlic. Turkey broth went in, either some fresh grated ginger (used a microplane), some chicken bullion, leftover bread dressing, and some white wine. Letting it steep for a while. To be adddd: Turkey meat, frozen corn & peas, maybe a can of northern white beans. Egg noodles cooked up separately.
Big wind and rainstorm last night. Power went out at 1:30 AM. When I got up I started the woodstove and pulled my camping percolator coffee pot out the chop box in the garage. Put it on the stove and had cowboy coffee and a PB&J sandwich for breakfast. The Wif and I spent most of the day cleaning up storm debris. Power back on at 3:30 AM.
We have been hit several times in a row with major rains. If you have been following the newscasts you see a lot of mud slides and most of the coastal and Puget Sound rivers at record flood stages. Nearest rivers to us are the Green to the north and the Nisqually to the south both at flood stages. Lot of flooded out towns. We personally have had no major problems in our area except the wind took down a number of trees with saturated root systems that, in turn, took out power lines. That is what caused our outage and many others. Our biggest impact is that the front face of my woodshed got soaked by windblown rain. Now I have to reach into the next row back to get bone dry splits! A minor bother compared to a flooded house!
Feet of rain causing problems. Lots of on and off power lately. Lots of long hours working and restoring power. Got home, started the stove and put this on. Couple elk shank cuts and the usual veggies. Smelled great. Owl
I didn't cook anything but I melted some wax on the stove and made some beeswax candles the other day. "shrug"
