When canning the venison the other day, one jar looked kinda “iffy”. It was sealed but there was a bit of a bubble in the lid so I didn’t want to risk it. That jar was placed in the fridge, and yesterday I planned to make some kind of soup with it. All the while, burgoo was on my mind and despite not starting out to make a “burgoo-ish” soup, that’s what I ended up with.
Venison Soup
Venison, onions, potatoes, celery, carrots.
Venison Soup
A bag of frozen “gumbo mix” . . though I’ve never seen corn in gumbo!
Venison Soup
A jar of tomatoes was added. Then the pot was too full so I transferred it to a bigger pot.
Now, there was lots of room in the pot so, with Thanksgiving food needing to go into the fridge, the soup became a “Clean Out The Fridge Soup”!
I added kale, asparagus, then it needed more meat so I added a jar of canned chicken, along with the broth.
All the while, since this was a first meal from this hear’s venison, Vince was saying . . Does the venison taste wild? Does the venison taste gamey? He loved it! I asked him “On a scale of 1 – 10, what is it?”and he said “It’s a 20!”
Dinner
Salad, Cornbread and Venison soup . . and the best part . .
Leftovers
Two containers for the freezer and a quart jar for the the next few days.
Diana in RR,TX says
That is pretty much how I used to make vegetable beef soup-anything and everything went in it. Tonight we had the chicken avocado lime soup that had been posted on FB a while back. Had some in the freezer-forgot to get avocados for topping and forgot the cheese. But it tasted good and we also ate outside on the porch! Beautiful evening- the mourning moon was pretty well hidden but still a nice evening to be outside.