Turkey Carcass Soup

Mmm sounds appetizing, no?
So the Fallones sent me home with the turkey carcass in a plastic garbage bag this Thanksgiving. I figured I could attempt to make some sort of soup out of it, but have never attempted something involving bones, so I stuck it in my freezer until tonight, and then made Steve rip it into pieces for me so it would fit nicely into 2 pots.
I checked the interweb for recipes, and ended up combining a few of them.
Basically, here's how it went....

Chuck carcass into large pot, or 2 if it doesn't fit into one.
Cover carcass with water and a cup or 2 of chicken or vegetable broth
Add some salt pepper, and about 4 mashed garlic cloves.
Chuck in a small handful of parsley and cilantro.
If there isn't a lot of meat on the carcass, add about 6 extra turkey breasts, and some dark meat if you're into it.
Bring to a boil and skim the white foam crap off the top as it forms.
Reduce heat to simmer and leave it for half hour to an hour.

Meanwhile, cut up your veggies into chunks (they'll be cooking awhile)
I added about...
6-8 carrots
4-6 celery stalks
4 turnips
2 parsnips
1 large red onion
1 decent sized leek

and then some seasoning...
about 4 more garlic cloves
cup plus of chopped parsley (Add more as you go to season to taste)
cup plus of chopped cilantro (Add more as you go to season to taste)
about 1/4 cup chopped lemongrass if you have any (Add more as you go to season to taste)
a bay leaf or two
and more salt and pepper
veggie or chicken bullion cubes don't hurt either, but you'll be fine without one

You can do the turkey removal part 2 ways...
1) I just chucked all the veggies into the pot and let the whole thing simmer for about 2 hours, and then picked through to remove bones, skin etc. It makes straining out the bones a bit more challenging, but I wanted to get as much turkey flavor as i could out of mr carcass.

2) you can strain the broth, remove the carcass and bones, and then put the veggies into the broth and cook for another hour or so.

Regardless, the meat will mostly fall off the bones as it cooks. You can use tongs to pull off any remaining nice meat pieces from the carcass and put them back into your soup.

The whole thing should simmer for at least an hour, and 3 if you have them. Make sure you taste as you go, and season to your liking.

When there are about 15-20 minutes left, get a pair of tongs and a big spoon and take out the carcass. Then go through the pots to strain out any remaining bones / huge floating flabs of skin / nasty looking rubbery parts. (You can do this with a strainer too, but I saw a huge opportunity to either make a complete mess or burn myself. So I just stirred through the pot. It was quite soothing.)

After you think you've gotten out the stray nasty parts, add your uncooked noodles to the soup and let them cook, according to package directions, probably 5-10 minutes.

Let the soup cool a bit so you don't burn your tongue.

You can freeze this stuff too, and break it out when the sniffles hit.