Unfortunately, a lot of college kids / 9-5ers I’ve seen have a set of exactly 2 or so dishes (not exaggerating) which they tend to regularly cycle through as their “cooked dinner of the week”, typically involving some kind of noodle and protein, usually some variation of hamburger helper, carbonara or chicken fajita, but I’ve seen vegetarian editions too.
Making soup is relatively easy, unless you
Don’t lightly caramelize the mirepoix before adding water, so the broth is bland
Don’t know what a mirepoix is
Put the noodles in first
Put the potatoes in last
Want to try your hand at making “peanutbutter soup” because it looked cool on your buddy’s last instagram post
Oversalted it and an article online recommended lemon juice to “absorb the sodium”
There is kind of an art to making good soup.
Unfortunately, a lot of college kids / 9-5ers I’ve seen have a set of exactly 2 or so dishes (not exaggerating) which they tend to regularly cycle through as their “cooked dinner of the week”, typically involving some kind of noodle and protein, usually some variation of hamburger helper, carbonara or chicken fajita, but I’ve seen vegetarian editions too.
Making soup is relatively easy, unless you
I’ve seen some travesties lmfao