re meat pies

[MMDown Under]

9 minutes ago, kate59 said:

I love pumpkin and we sometimes grow. Savoury has herbs, sweet has sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon.

I just saved my bland butternut pumpkin soup with Sri Lankin spice - yummy!

Sweet pumpkin doesn't appeal to me, maybe because I don't like cinnamon.  Whilst researching I did come across pumpkin fritters which looked interesting.  

[OzKiwiJJ]

19 minutes ago, kate59 said:

I love pumpkin and we sometimes grow. Savoury has herbs, sweet has sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon.

Ground cumin, coriander and ginger go well with pumpkin too, especially in soup.

[MMDown Under]

3 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Ground cumin, coriander and ginger go well with pumpkin too, especially in soup.

Sounds good.  I had no spice with me, so bought Sri Lankin spice mix which is roasted coriander, cumin, mustard, fennel, cinnamon, cardamon, cloves, pepper, chilli and turmeric.  just delish!

[OzKiwiJJ]

12 minutes ago, MMDown Under said:

Sounds good.  I had no spice with me, so bought Sri Lankin spice mix which is roasted coriander, cumin, mustard, fennel, cinnamon, cardamon, cloves, pepper, chilli and turmeric.  just delish!

Mmmmm! Sounds yummy!

 

I'm just finishing off making a large batch of turkey noodle soup. I started the stock for it on Tuesday, using two packs of turkey drumsticks. Simmered that overnight then strained the stock and shredded the meat off the bones yesterdsy. Today I turned it all into soup. It's currently our favourite pick-me-up soup for days when we're feeling a bit blah.

[Chiliburn]

3 hours ago, mr walker said:

We watch a British TV show where they trace lost relatives from adoptions. Every episode it seems there will be a lady who says "me mooom" 🙂 

 

2 hours ago, Chiliburn said:

I think that the accent mr Walker, that pommie accent like finger nail down a blackboard.

They spell it mum 

I feel I need something to share with you mr walker 

 

[NSWP]

10 hours ago, MMDown Under said:

They scoop out pumpkins for Halloween and through out contents.  

 

In my youth, pumpkin was mashed with potato so children would eat it!  Roast pumpkin is delicious!

Not so keen on pumpkin in salad. 

Well Halloween is stupid, should be binned IMO.

 

One time when I was on an American Princess ship, Halloween was all over the atrium, out of control, I shook my head and  went to my cabin, imbibed in a couple of  elite cognacs on the balcony. Note cabin not stateroom , lol.

Edited May 13, 2021 by NSWP

[NSWP]

22 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Mmmmm! Sounds yummy!

 

I'm just finishing off making a large batch of turkey noodle soup. I started the stock for it on Tuesday, using two packs of turkey drumsticks. Simmered that overnight then strained the stock and shredded the meat off the bones yesterdsy. Today I turned it all into soup. It's currently our favourite pick-me-up soup for days when we're feeling a bit blah.

Sounds good, i like brewing up a bit of loop de loop. Have to try your receipe, veges and spices of course.

[MicCanberra]

I like Halloween as a holiday but unfortunately  we don't get the day off here.

[NSWP]

22 minutes ago, Chiliburn said:

 

I feel I need something to share with you mr walker 

 

 

22 minutes ago, Chiliburn said:

I feel I need something to share with you mr walker 

 

Mr Walker and wife are nice people Chili, do not=frighten them, lol.

[NSWP]

3 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

I like Halloween as a holiday but unfortunately  we don't get the day off here.

How sad Mic, it is a yankee thing.

[NSWP]

5 hours ago, Blackduck59 said:

I think this subject came up a while back when I was confused about thing that I would know a "squash" being referred to as pumpkin. Most of the "Pumpkins" we have are used for "jack o lanterns" at Halloween, which is after the Canadian "Thanksgiving". The ones like that in the picture are edible. we do have some white skinned ones that people use for Jack o Lanterns they aren't edible.

Welcome back Lyle.

[NSWP]

48 minutes ago, MMDown Under said:

Sounds good.  I had no spice with me, so bought Sri Lankin spice mix which is roasted coriander, cumin, mustard, fennel, cinnamon, cardamon, cloves, pepper, chilli and turmeric.  just delish!

Sounds good, no garlic, hate garlic, the taste the smell.. Not a skerrick of garlic in my place.

[Chiliburn]

5 minutes ago, NSWP said:

 

Mr Walker and wife are nice people Chili, do not=frighten them, lol.

Sorry,don’t want to rub someone up the wrong way.

 

BUT 

 

[Chiliburn]

4 minutes ago, NSWP said:

Welcome back Lyle.

@Blackduck59

still loves us and he knows we love him.

[OzKiwiJJ]

6 minutes ago, NSWP said:

Sounds good, i like brewing up a bit of loop de loop. Have to try your receipe, veges and spices of course.

My recipe makes 16 serves. Plenty to freeze. Of course if you want less serves just use one pack of turkey and about 2-3 litres of water for the stock, plus onion, carrot, celery, all roughly chopped, parsley and peppercorns.

 

For the soup I use finely diced onion, carrot, celery and swede sweated down in the reserved fat skimmed from the stock. Add the stock and simmer for a while, then add spaghettini broken into 1cm pieces. Simmer until pasta is cooked then stir through the shredded turkey meat and bring up to heat again and season to taste. I don't add extra herbs or spices to this soup, we like it fairly plain so the turkey flavour is prominent.

[MMDown Under]

36 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Mmmmm! Sounds yummy!

 

I'm just finishing off making a large batch of turkey noodle soup. I started the stock for it on Tuesday, using two packs of turkey drumsticks. Simmered that overnight then strained the stock and shredded the meat off the bones yesterdsy. Today I turned it all into soup. It's currently our favourite pick-me-up soup for days when we're feeling a bit blah.

 

1 hour ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

My recipe makes 16 serves. Plenty to freeze. Of course if you want less serves just use one pack of turkey and about 2-3 litres of water for the stock, plus onion, carrot, celery, all roughly chopped, parsley and peppercorns.

 

For the soup I use finely diced onion, carrot, celery and swede sweated down in the reserved fat skimmed from the stock. Add the stock and simmer for a while, then add spaghettini broken into 1cm pieces. Simmer until pasta is cooked then stir through the shredded turkey meat and bring up to heat again and season to taste. I don't add extra herbs or spices to this soup, we like it fairly plain so the turkey flavour is prominent.

I like making my own stock during winter, so will have to try your turkey recipe which sounds delicious. .

I read a library book by a diabetic man, who had a unique vegetable soup recipe.  He cooked his soup in two saucepans.  One for the soup and one for the vegetable peelings, which he cooked.  He blitzed the peelings and added them to the soup.  I tried it and it was delicious.  

[OzKiwiJJ]

14 minutes ago, MMDown Under said:

 

I like making my own stock during winter, so will have to try your turkey recipe which sounds delicious. .

I read a library book by a diabetic man, who had a unique vegetable soup recipe.  He cooked his soup in two saucepans.  One for the soup and one for the vegetable peelings, which he cooked.  He blitzed the peelings and added them to the soup.  I tried it and it was delicious.  

I always make my own stock. I have a 12 litre stockpot so make quite a lot at one time. I freeze then vacpac it.

 

We got hooked on turkey noodle soup after using up the remains of a Christmas turkey once. Now I don't wait for Christmas. Woolworths have lovely turkey drumsticks and wings. I roast them off first to get some caramelisation, reserve any fat from that then deglaze the roasting pan with water which gets added to the stockpot. 

[MicCanberra]

14 hours ago, NSWP said:

How sad Mic, it is a yankee thing.

It is not actually, it is from the UK, the US just commercialised it.

[GUT2407]

Can we get off pumpkin and back to good old meat pies.
 

Next time I go to mums, the local pie shop is advertising slow cooked lamb shank pie. So if Mrs Gut suggests fish and chips, she may get a surprise.

[possum52]

1 hour ago, MicCanberra said:

It is not actually, it is from the UK, the US just commercialised it.

It is from an ancient Celtic festival of Samhain where people would light fires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. From there, a pope in the 8th century decided to honour all saints on November 1st. which then incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before All Saints Day became known as All Hallows Eve and later Halloween.

[GUT2407]

If we must adopt some overseas holiday, we need to make it one with a week or two off work.

[ilikeanswers]

2 hours ago, MicCanberra said:

It is not actually, it is from the UK, the US just commercialised it.

 

I would say Halloween is American, they have changed it so much it barely resembles All Hallows Eve as practiced in Europe😂. 

[Blackduck59]

31 minutes ago, GUT2407 said:

If we must adopt some overseas holiday, we need to make it one with a week or two off work.

What overseas holiday gets you a week off work? I mean Oktoberfest is at least 16 days but I don't think you get time off work unless you take your annual leave.🍺😁

[ilikeanswers]

1 hour ago, Blackduck59 said:

What overseas holiday gets you a week off work? I mean Oktoberfest is at least 16 days but I don't think you get time off work unless you take your annual leave.🍺😁

 

I'm pretty sure Chinese New Year is a week long public holiday🤔

[Chiliburn]

1 hour ago, GUT2407 said:

Can we get off pumpkin and back to good old meat pies.
 

Next time I go to mums, the local pie shop is advertising slow cooked lamb shank pie. So if Mrs Gut suggests fish and chips, she may get a surprise.

Lamb goes well in a pie.

I like to use a bit of leftover lamb stew and nock up a family pie.