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Superwoman Visited Aberdeen, Scotland

Superwoman arrived Aberdeen airport

Oh boy…this post is really way long overdue! Blame it on my busyness again…..*sigh*. But, really thanks LOTS for dropping by to read and also leaving your comments. I must say that it’s your comments that always leave me smiling and encouraged and make me want to continue blogging for the rest of my life. Blogging is fun. If you have not started blogging, I would like to encourage you to give a try. After all, it’s free to blog, so why wait. I have never regretted the day I started blogging.
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Beef Dumplings In Turkey Soup With Kimchi

Beef dumplings in turkey soup

It’s summer here but most days are still very windy, rainy and cold……*sigh*. Soup is still what I like most on those days. One of my favourite soups is turkey soup. Over here in UK, turkey drumsticks, like chicken drumsticks or thighs, are much cheaper than breast meat. I am so happy that’s the case because I only like the thighs and drumsticks. I always buy 2 turkey drumsticks, sometimes 4. I just bake all 4 together to save electricity. You can freeze some if you don’t use all. I cooked this beef dumplings in turkey soup served with kimchi for dinner yesterday.
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Meat Balls Rice Porridge

Fabulous Meat Ball Rice Porridge

Here is a very delicious meat ball rice porridge (or congee) using sweet corn water that I made for dinner yesterday. This is even good for breakfast or lunch. It’s even good for little children. It’s again a very simple and easy dish. This is another of my family’s favourite.

I actually used the left-over water from boiling sweet corn. That makes the porridge exceptionally tasty. My family just loved it. When boiling the sweet corn, add in half a teaspoon or more of sea salt to the water, depending on the amount of water and sweetcorn in the pot. There should be enough water in the pot to almost cover the sweet corn. The sea salt will bring out the sweetness of the sweet corn. There should be the right amount of the sea salt to bring out that sweetness. Taste the sweet corn when it is cooked.
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Best Turkey Rice Porridge

One of my family’s favourite foods is the turkey rice porridge. It is even good for children. On several occasions I cooked for my friends and everyone loved it. It’s really my best turkey rice porridge. I love cooking it because it is very simple and easy. Even though I love to cook, I would not prefer to stay for hours in the kitchen. I’m always looking for shortcuts to faster cooking. This is one of them.

This turkey porridge took me 2 short sessions to prepare. I bake 2 drumsticks to use it for 2 times. Of course you can bake 4 in one go if your oven is big enough. You can use one and keep 3 in the fridge for another 3 times. Each turkey drumstick can make enough porridge for 4 people.

Recipe

Ingredients A (preparing roasted turkey drumsticks)
2 turkey drumsticks
salt

Marinated turkey drumsticks

Sprinkle salt generously all over the drumsticks and let it sit for 2-3 hours. Then bake it in a preheated oven at 200 degrees Celcius for 1 hour. Do not throw away the juice from the roasting. Add to the stock for flavours and taste.

Roasted turkey drumsticks

Ingredients B (preparing soup stock)
Carrots
Water
Turkey bones

Roasted turkey bones

Sliced turkey meat

Remove the meat from the bones. keep the bones for the stock and slice the meat for topping on the porridge.

Grated carrots

Grate 3 big carrots for the stock. Carrots make the soup tasty because of its sweetness.

turkey soup stock

Put the turkey bones, carrots and water into a pot and put on slow boil for about 1 hour. Then add in the cooked rice and boil for about 10 min, longer if you want the rice to be softer. Add in some salt and enough Kikkoman soya sauce to taste. Top it with chopped spring onions, fried shallot oil and some sliced turkey meat and enjoy the best turkey porridge. It’s cheap, low fat, light, full of nutrients, easy to cook and filling.

Ingredients C (cooking the porridge)
Cooked rice (enough for 4 people)
Kikkoman soya sauce
Fried shallot and oil
Spring onion

Best turkey porridge

Have a go at this porridge and let me know how much you like it. It is even good for those who want to lose weight. To be a good cook, you need to keep learning, keep trying and keep smiling as you progress. If you like this article, you can subscribe for free to my RSS (orange button on top right) or through the email so that you don’t miss out on any future articles.