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At least once a week I make a soup. Just start it simmering about an hour before dinner time and you're gold. It'll be even better in leftovers. Cheap n' cheerful!
Broccoli and cheese - sautee onion in butter, add chicken or veg broth and a bunch of broccoli. Boil until broccoli is tender. Add cream. Boil. Stir in grated cheese (parmesan, cream cheese, monterey jack, whatever you have) until creamy. Make it super smooth with a stick mixer in the pot.
Curried sweet potato and carrot - sautee onion, carrot, celery in butter/oil. Add cumin, curry powder, smoky paprika. Add veg broth. Boil. Add chopped up sweet potato and boil until potato is soft. Add cream if you want a cream base. Otherwise just take your stick mixer to it.
Lamb lentil stew - hearty! sautee your mire poix (garlic, onion, celery, carrot) in butter. Add beef or chicken broth. Boil. Add 1 or 2 lamb neck sections. Add can of diced tomatoes. Simmer for a long while, until the meat falls off the bone when prodded. Add dried lentils, black beans, whatever legume you like. Add carrot chunks, potato chunks if you like. Simmer for another 45 mins until legumes are done.
Good luck and I really hope your daughter improves soon! So many of my friends in their 30s are taking ill with gall bladder issues and IBS. Makes me wonder what the heck is going on.
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