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This is how I made it, using what I had. First of all, I thought I was buying smoked turkey wings, but when I got home found that I had necks, but they flavored the soup nicely, just not a lot of meat on them.

I put 4 cups of chicken broth into my big soup pot, drained 2 cans of cut green beans into a 4 cup measure, added water to the 4 cup mark, put into the pot with the smoked turkey necks, let them simmer for an hour or so.

Then I put the necks on a plate to cool, put about 1/2 of a head of cauliflower, cut in chunks, into the broth and simmered until they were very tender, between 20 minutes and 1/2 hour. I dumped the canned green beans into the broth just to heat through, then turned off the heat and used my immersion blender to thoroughly puree the soup. I suppose you could use a countertop blender or a food processor just as well. Then I took the meat off the bones of the necks, as much as I could, and put it back into the pot.

Tasted and then adjusted seasoning. It needed a bit of salt. We ladled it into our bowls, and began slurping. Oh, boy, it was excellent! You just can't believe how much this tastes like split pea soup. The texture is lighter, but the flavor is there, from the smoked turkey.