Let me approach this with the following perspective, you know the talents of a chef by looking at what they throw away (or not). The following soup is made from all of the cast-offs from thanksgiving dinner, and is easy to make.

 While preparing thanksgiving dinner please take all of the following items and toss them in a sealable container: unused pieces of carrots, celery, and onions. Put the ziplock in the fridge. After you have had your beautiful Turkey dinner, clean the good meat from the carcass and save the rest in another container. (For the turkey carcass, I tend to use a gallon zip lock.)  Please note this can be easily accomplished after drinking an entire bottle of wine while fighting with your parents/in-laws/significant other about the economy/politics/foreign countries.

 Wake up the next morning with a headache from drinking. Rifle through your refrigerator, and throw the following items in a crop pot on medium heat for 3 hours:

 turkey carcass, all meat removed

vegetable remnants

2 quarts of water

1 bay leaf

For this soup to taste delicious it is important to apologize to anyone you insulted/offended on thanksgiving. Send a generic email to everyone at your party thanking them for coming over and apologizing for being drunk/beligerant/overly emotional etc. 

Remove cats, and lay on couch. Then you must watch CNN for ten minutes to see if anyone was trampled to death at Walmart during Black Friday. If no one died take a nap. If everyone lived  watch 1 episode of the Law and Order Marathon.

After three hours, get off the couch. Open the fridge again, and pull out potatoes, pieces of turkey and any left over vegetables.

Fish turkey carcass out of the crock pot, this will be gross and however it’s necessary.  Strain big chucks of stuff from crock pot. When it looks ok, and you think you’re family will eat it without asking too many questions, toss mouth-sized pieces of turkey meat into the pot. Add leftover vegetables and potatoes.

Taste your concoction. If you feel it needs more flavor and are capable of standing for ten minutes, sauté onions and celery  in olive oil and dump it in the crock pot.

Turn on low heat. Return to the couch and if people ask about food point in the general direction of the crock pot and grunt. Feeds hungry people.