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Oh, but the glut of tomatoes – I made homemade V8. Tomato, celery, tabasco, cook for twenty minutes and zizz with the mixer. Makes a kickass bloody mary.

We do something similiar, or used to before the fauxvegan kick.

Son #3 labelled it “Random Chicken” because it was made with chicken and whatever else I scrounged from the cabinets or fridge.

Now I do “Random curry”

damned bunnies kept getting into my carrots (and lettuce) this year. Will be a meager carrot harvest. Didn’t seem to matter how high I raised the planters. Had to put a wire quonset hut around the lettuce.

I may take a crack at that soup recipe.

@durnedyankee — Your “Random Chicken” and “Random curry” comment reminded me of a nifty idea I’d like to pass along. My sister and BIL love a nice, LARGE roast turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas even though the number of dinner attendees has dwindled over the years. What to do with all the leftovers? She makes a great big pot of turkey curry and ladles that good stuff into meal-sized containers and tosses them in the freezer. They’re still enjoying the Christmas bird on Mother’s Day.

@Uncle Al – Mrs D has been manufacturing all side things “vegan”, like butter (kindasorta), and cheese (no, unless you have a cow that gives vegetable milk), and we make soup broth out of vegetable bits pieces and parts what don’t get et (carrot peelings, celery leaves, etc) once we’ve accumulated enough to make 4 quarts of broth.

Birdbath and Beyond has nifty little silicon 2 cup (sensible English measure, none of this millimeter crap) cube trays with 4 slots in em that make nice ice blocks of “whatever” to stick in the freezer. Works a treat.
If your sister doesn’t already have a couple of trays, I recommend them to you as a Christmas present.