According to the weather guessers we will be getting our first snow this weekend with temperatures down to 9F on Tuesday night. So I figured it was time to start warming up ourselves and the kitchen a bit with some turkey stock and curry pumpkin soup.

I added a dozen whole cloves, a half-dozen allspice berries, and three whole chipotle chiles to the turkey stock recipe. I will be using this turkey stock, some roasted sugar pumpkins, and a small batch of applesauce in the curry pumpkin soup.

After having the stock simmering and the pumpkins roasting for about an hour now, the kitchen and loft are nice and warm and the house is really starting to smell good. The pumpkins have about an hour left in the oven and the stock has three more hours of simmering.

This is a really nice way to keep warm on cold days. I think I will also make some cinnamon swirl bread for French toast tomorrow morning. It is really nice having two ovens again.