Turkey Soup

This year Thanksgiving was at our house. The first holiday we've had in our home! It was fantastic. Does anyone have a left over turkey carcass? We sure did. Our turkey was 31 pounds! Saturday afternoon was spent putting the remains to good use and here's how.

Ingredients:
Leftover turkey bones
Carrots (I like to use the big carrots, not the baby kind)
Celery
Onion
Leftover gravy
Salt and Pepper
Chicken Bouillon
Leftover turkey meat
Bag of noodles

Put the turkey in a big pot. It can have the skin and meat still on it. (Wow that sounds gross)
Add enough water to cover or a little less
Peel and cut up the carrots. They don't have to be perfect, you'll throw these away
Cut up the celery
Cut the onion
Put all veggies in the pot
Add your gravy if you have any
Put it on the stove to boil
We let our cook for well over two hours We wanted to get the full flavor
Add salt and pepper to taste. You can also use garlic powder and/or onion salt
If it isn't as strong as you would like, add chicken bouillion
In the meantime you can be slicing up new veggies
Once you have a good flavor take it off the stove
Strain the broth into another pot
Throw everything else but the broth away
Add your fresh veggies to the broth
Throw in your leftover turkey meat
This is the point where some people like to get fancy and add homemade noodles Thing is, you can buy noodles that are just like homemade I like them Whichever you choose throw them in now
Cook this until the noodles and veggies are soft

This does take a bit of work but is sure beats eating cold turkey sandwiches for a week! We made a ton of soup which I intend to freeze. My sister is going to school so I will stock her freezer as well as mine with the soup. If you do this, do NOT add the noodles. You can do everything but that. Add the noodles when you are actually going to eat it. If you freeze them they get mushy and gross.