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Just took my Thanksgiving turkey carcass out of the freezer this afternoon and made some delicious turkey rice soup. Ingredients:

1 lb carrots
1 lb celery
2 onions
1 bag frozen peas
1 lb mushrooms
turkey carcass
2 cups wild rice

I assume you all know how to make soup, so I will not waste time giving you specific instructions. Iwill say this, though- yuou need very little salt and pepper to make a grreat soup. After you boil the carcass for a while, pull it out of the pot, let it cool, and you will have a great broth for your soup already. Pick the meat off the carcass, throw it in the put with the other ingredients, and that is really it. Super simple, and I will be able to eat it for over a week. Just warm, tasty goodness for cold days. For dessert I am making baked apples stuffed with cinnamon and raisins.

For some good Holiday Cheer, I recommend visiting this website, F**k Christmas, which takes on the chowderheads pushing this tedious ‘War on Christmas’ crap. I can’t figure out who annoys me more- the folks who try to remove every manger from a public place, or the folks who are fighting this mythical ‘War on Christmas.’

Personally, I just want some nog with rum.

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  2. 2.

    Ancient Purple

    I personally take the tact that all religions and non-religions should be allowed to put whatever they want up in the public square.

    Manger scene? Fine by me.

    Menorah? Sure thing.

    Statue of Buddha? No problem.

    Photo exhibit of Darwin? Go for it.

    Celebration of Atheistic Principles? Thumbs up.

    Altar of Satan? Absolutely a-ok.

    I never understood why, as long as you allow equal access, you can’t use the public square to accommodate all beliefs.

    Of course, I am also a realist and know that in the current environment, Atheists or Satanists putting up a display is sure to send people ballistic.

  3. 3.

    Steve S

    From Sam Seder

    You don’t care about the people who don’t celebrate Christmas, fine. But I don’t celebrate Christmas and I don’t care. So, why are we wasting everybody’s time? It’s so that you can fund raise, that’s why Bob. And I think you know that’s true.

    It’s about fucking time they say this. God, don’t argue with these nut jobs on the facts… they’re just making shit up to fundraise.

    HAPPY KWANZANNUKMAS!

  5. 5.

    Sine.Qua.Non

    wow…….(cough)…….That post was amazingly cathartic. John? Did you write that? Cuz, WOW. I think I started holding my breath about halfway through and then expelled it all at once at the end! What a purge.
    The soup sounds amazing, I love wild rice, when do we eat?

  7. 7.

    Otto Man

    That Sam Seder assault was priceless. He came after that guy with a nice combination of snark and reason, and all the Christmas Warrior could come back with was a small-town Wisconsin grade school that changed the words to “Silent Night” and, of course, a comparison to the Nazis.

    Outstanding stuff. The whole transcript’s worth a read.

  8. 8.

    ppGaz

    Can we please change the name of the thread to “Christmas Goodness?” Why do we have to dihonor the birthday of our savior?

  9. 9.

    S.W. Anderson

    That soup sounds terrific.

    Ancient Purple, your inclusive approach mirrors my own and befits a free society.

    I’m coming to the belief the healthy silent majority of Christians in America has given off two mutant strains that are neither healthy nor silent. These offshoots have in common a need to forever demonstrate they are the targets of bigots and godless conspirators. In one strain, this feeds some kind of neurosis. In the other, it stokes political influence and fills bank accounts. I’m pretty sure the God I believe in has little patience with the former and outright contempt for the latter.

    In any case, I suspect Wal-Mart’s greeters could start dressing up as the Three Kings of Orient and singing the appropriate song, rabbis could chant the words of “Silent Night” during services, and the ACLU could lay down its briefs — no, I mean the legal kind — and instead go out and shake a few bells for the Salvation Army, and people of the two offshoot strains would still find affronts, slights and looming conspiracies to wring hands and vituperate about.

    Ah, what a great country. In the words of Tiny Tim, “God bless us one and all.”

  10. 10.

    Jim Allen

    Re: “Scrooge got a turkey for the cratchets remember?”

    He also got an accountant to be named later in the same trade.

  11. 11.

    Jim Allen

    Re: ‘Ah, what a great country. In the words of Tiny Tim, “God bless us one and all.” ‘

    Now, now, be careful. You don’t want to offend those of us who don’t believe in Tiny Tim. Besides, that whole ukulele thing doesn’t fit in with the holidays.

  14. 14.

    Perry Como

    Name the three battles in the war on Christmas with the highest casualty rate.

    Battle of the Bulging Wasteline
    The Tot Offensive
    The WalMart Massacre

  15. 15.

    Slartibartfast

    Probably too late by now, but:

    Fresh tarragon. As much or as little as you like. The sage and other stuff can be dried, but there’s nothing like fresh tarragon (although some dried varieties are actually a decent substitute). Fresh thyme, too, if you can get it. And the killer ingredient: parsnips.

    But: PEAS? MUSHROOMS?

    Disclaimer: I have used fresh fennel stalks in making the broth, so I’m not exactly mainstream. If you’ve ever made braised fennel bulb, the part I use is the part you don’t braise, because it doesn’t get very tender. It does, however, have a bunch of flavor that does nice things to turkey soup broth. Just fish ’em out when you add everything back to the broth.

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    tzs

    Slarti, where do you live that you can find parsnips? I thought they were a mythical English foodstuff only found when one held a farthing under a blue moon.

    Me: garlic and white wine. Sweet potatoes. And whatever else you have in the veggie drawer that needs to be used up.

  18. 18.

    StupidityRules

    Don’t mock the War on Christmas. It’s a fight that goes on in the heart of the US as opposed to the Global War on Terror. It’s also a war that we have to win or it’s all lost, we can lose Iraq but we can’t lose Christmas.

    Sadly I’m for many reasons unable to participate in the GWOT, but don’t worry, today I’m singing Christmas Carols while I’m going around informing my neighbours on how they can help bring down our lethal enemies by buying a second Christmas tree or boycotting stores that wishes you ‘Happy Holidays’.

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