After my failure at cooking chicken on Thanksgiving, I promised myself I wouldn't let that meat go to waste since it just ended up overcooked. I had planned to make a chicken stock with the chicken, my first ever, and that's what I decided to do.

Surprise! I just heated up a mug of my stock to ease the cold day, and wow! It was fantastic and deep and I don't even have words to describe how unlike any chicken broth/stock/soup I've ever tried this is. I'm almost tempted to try to roll out a batch of pasta by hand to put in this.

What have been some of your greatest cooking joys, surprises, and accomplishments?