Wild Firebrand

Ok, so I’ve never made this before. BUT, I wanted to test smoking a turkey, but it got cold outside so I decided to cook it overnight in the crock pot instead and then I looked up turkey recipes and ended up making Turkey Wild Rice Soup, but it was SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOD, that I am adding it to this blog. With love. From ya mutha.

I bought the carrots and parsnips and celery for the recipe but I had everything else, including, garlic, rosemary, mushrooms, and butter. Plus, like I said, the turkey…

Yeah, so, I covered it with beef bone broth overnight and let it cook. It was dark.

Then I pulled all the meat off the bones. Thought about reading them, but decided…nah, not today. Instead I kept the broth the turkey cooked in….and used it as a base. Forgot to take a picture and then cooked the vegetables in a pan with butter. Oh, I also added thyme because it smelled good with the root veggies. And I had it out already. It’s science.

Once they cooked down and absorbed the butter — unsalted like always.

I chopped up the turkey breast and started to prepare the Long Grain & Wild Rice (feeling very official with my capitalization here…)

Then, I cooked the rice in the same pan I had the vegetables in — I dumped them in the crock pot with the turkey juice — the vegetables I mean.

While the rice was cooking, I sliced the shrooms.

And added them to the pot. I did NOT cook them in the pan before because I like my shrooms a little firmer and I didn’t want to lose the liquid inside the mushrooms. And, even though, it’s in the name, I don’t like my shrooms mushy. But, as always — you do what works for YOU! Don’t let anybody else tell you how to shroom!

Dump the sliced shrooms, diced turkey, and cooked veggies into the turkey juice with plenty of thyme. I also squeezed a drop or half a lemon to add some acid to the mix, but not a lot because I needed it for my gin and ginger ale. But it was out and cut, so I squeezed it in there.

Once the rice was done, I added that will all the pan scraping and frond and brown stuff on the side and I let it cook in the crock for a couple of hours. Then, we ate it so fast, I didn’t stop for shots. But it was GOOD!

Trust your momma. And live everyday knowing you are loved.