I don;t have super good process pics here like I'd normally like to have, but in times of need, we support the threads we love, so please imagine the smells I describe for the rest of the post.
This afternoon, had the guts of a 15 lb bird minus the parts you prolly want for stock/broth generally, like the neck, the legs, and the wings, because those are also the best eating parts and get thrown out right away. Cracked a bunch of the bones and then roasted the bones and what was left on them, including a surprising amount of stuffing stuck on the inner ribs of whatever, for like 40 minutes on a sheet pan at 475, with salt and pepper, and some olive erl to start. In the steel crock pot, softened/browned 4 carrots, 4 or 5 celery sticks, and 4 big onions all chopped to < square inch size, for like 20 minutes, with some olive erl, and salt and pepper. Combined all the surviving guts and pan remainders into the crock pot with a gallon of water, and cooked it down for ~2.5 hours. Smelled like turkey dinner all day, still smells like it. Like the best stuffing ever, really. I had like 16 oz of the broth with Saturday's left over long-grain white rice and maybe 1/5 lb of dark ribmeat in a soup for dinner. Smells like Thanksgiving. This is almost gravy in broth form, maybe though an ingredient rather than a topping.
Just made some popcorn, 1/4 cup of kernels in some sunflower oil, pot on the stove style, and pot in the pipe style. Made sure to burn some of the bottom popcorn, because burned corn is top top. Smashed 2 cloves of garlic, removed the skins, warmed them in like 2 tablespoons of butter until they smelled like garlic in butter which is generally terrific, poured the butter on the popcorn then threw on some kosher salt and a bunch of Everything But The Bagel from trader Joe's, because #whynot?
It looks like regular popcorn, but in times like this, there's no need for regular popcorn at all, ever again. Oil popped, garlic, salt and pepper, Frank's red hot, butter and anything in your spice rack, literally everything works on popcorn. I maybe even have went overboard with real garlic when maybe the dried garlic powder might've been the way to go, but fuck it, enjoy the greatness now, and make it better next time.
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