This is my first year cooking any kind of Thanksgiving and I’m really excited! I bought an eight pound turkey breast for the two of us and I have high hopes that it will come out awesomely.
My question though has to do with the leftovers. I would love to make a turkey soup with my bones and making my own stock and all that like my mom always did when I was a kid. The only problem is, being a lowly retail worker, I am working on Black Friday from 8 until 5 and will have no desire to create stock Friday night.
What should I do with my turkey carcass (ew, that word is gross) until Saturday? Should I put it in the freezer? The fridge? I really don’t know what the best approach is here.
Thanks!
I think the fridge would be fine. I’ve delayed post-Thanksgiving soup-making for a couple days, and nobody’s gotten sick.
Turkey soup is the best thing about the holiday, in my opinion. 
Either fridge or freezer.
I make some bangin’ turkey noodle soup from the turkey carcass. Collect all the drippings from the roaster, and allow the fat to separate in the refrigerator (reserve the fat for roux) and make awesome turkey stock.
I add celery, carrots and mushrooms, then make a roux from equal parts of the turkey fat and flour. Add the roux for the desired consistency. Season to taste with salt, pepper, garlic powder, thyme and sage.
You can make noodles that are identical to the ones in Campbell’s chicken noodle soup by using linguine, broken into shorter lengths.
Don’t forget the bay leaf!
Or you can put the bones and water in a crockpot to make your stock.
I do both, bones and drippings.
The fridge is fine for a few days, but the bones from just a breast aren’t going to make a whole lot of stock. But the good news is that you can pick up legs or necks or wings, roast them with your breast, and you have the basis for a fine stock.
If you haven’t already figured out which kind of soup, our favorite is one I found on Butterball’s website years ago.
It is now a tradition in our house - we save the turkey broth (with lots of turkey pieces in it) and then, for Christmas Day, we make this [=3&filters[ready_time_name]=Less+than+30+minutes"]fantastic turkey tortellini soup](http://www.butterball.com/recipe/turkey-tortellini-soup-2?filters[next_page)!
Way excellent, easy to make and you can double, triple the recipe for a larger group.