About being tired of turkey yet, I mean.  This soup worked about as expected, the only thing I wish I had done different was adding the broccoli as early as I did.  Should have waited but ran ran into the “simmer the soup for a long time” mindset.  You know what I’m talking about-start it at a simmer and wander by now and again to stir it around a bit.  Some veggies just can’t stand long simmers, and broccoli is right there at the top of that list.  Bean, carrots, onions, potatoes?  Sure you can overcook a carrot but an overdone carrot still looks pretty good.  Overcooked broccoli?  It’s just sad looking.

Used a couple of those parsnips I bought, never put any of those in a soup before.  They held up fine but the very nature of the dish means that their particular flavor was lost-melded with the flavors of every other veggie in there:  Carrots, potatoes, onions, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower.  I spooned some parsnip chunks out individually just to see what I could tell, texture little different from the potatoes, I could tell it wasn’t a carrot by taste but that was about all.

I made the usual loaf of bread to go with the soup.  Used the machine with the basic recipe for white bread but I added lard rather than the butter the recipe called for.  I’m not going to make a  judgement on the basis of a single loaf but I can say that this loaf  turned out just fantastic.  I wish I could say that every loaf I’ve made in this unit turned out just the same but that would not be true.  There have been few outright failures and different loaves have risen differently.  Not sure I can attribute any particular change to a certain thing like bad yeast, or too much flour, or some other technical item-when a loaf fails I generally shrug and make the best of what comes out.  I will be making the next loaf with lard again.

Soup’s on!

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