cooking attempt: turkey gumbo

[rmd]

well, this may be the lamest turkey/andouille gumbo i've ever had. mostly because i was partway into the cooking part when i realized i was missing several of the vegetables i wanted to put in it, so it's lacking some of the richness of flavor i'd wanted and the stock ended up kind of watery.

otoh, i successfully made a nice brown roux as part of this, which was the first time i'd really managed that. so yay.

the final result is uninspired but edible.

can one freeze soup?

Comments

[tb]

Yes, one can freeze soup. Leave some room for expansion in the freezer container. I've been told that soups with lots of milk or cream in them don't freeze well, but I haven't had problems.

When you've thawed a frozen soup, you'll find it needs additional seasoning, stirring, and TLC before it's as good as it was before, but that also gives you a chance to tweak the flavor.

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

You can definitely freeze soup. We do it all the time. Leave a little room in the container for expansion though (WOWFTVOE).

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

You could always slap it on low and let it simmer more to reduce the wateriness. Yay on the roux. I'm still intimidated and I haven't made one myself yet even though I've seen like every chef on the Food Network make it.

Yay freezing soup. Nothing better than feeling lazy yet wanting some homemade soup . You trundle to your freezer, invoke the holy microwave and soup! I'd suggest freezing it in those plastic pint containers you get delivery wonton soup in, or the new cheapy semi-disposable gladware stuff. Leave like 1/2-3/4 inch head room and you'll be good.

[tinlail.livejournal.com]

I find ham add a really good favor to Gumbo.
I also now brown my meat in a seperate pot from my roux, so that I don't have to fight hot spots in the roux

[johnd.livejournal.com]

freezing soup ... i used to make beef stock and it froze well, soups freeze well, too, except if they have potatos in them,they don't come out so good, sort of a fuzzy texture.