How to make Minestrone Soup in Six Stress-free Steps!

1: Re-connect with an age-old family (circle) recipe handed down through the generations ...

2: As you cut up the ingredients, all the while listening to soothing classical music, let the stresses of the day slip away ...

3: Add ingredients in pot and commence cooking. Then re-read recipe with emerging sense of dread ...


4: Realise to your horror that you've put six times the recommended amount of stock in the pot!


5: Deal with the shame, the indignity of it all. Repeat in your head 'I am intelligent, I am a useful member of the human race'.

6: Voila! A tasty treat of liquid salt with added vegetables to remind you that you really are alive!