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so here we are everyone's completely
freaking out you can't buy Purell online
you can't get hand sanitizer you can't
get disinfecting wipes anywhere this
thing is completely taken over this
world I'm actually in West Chester which
is sort of where there's a big cluster
of this little virus that's going around
so I'm really kind of only going out
when necessary pretty busy with work
anyway so it's not really anything
different so there's a few things that
I'm doing just sort of take care of
myself and the main goal here is to
boost my immune system so some things
that are always recommended to make sure
your immune system is nice and strong
are drink lots of water that's pretty
much what you should be doing anyway get
plenty of sleep that is super important
and then finally eat well this is the
time to kind of get nutrients into our
body and if we give our body the things
that it needs even if we do get sick we
might be able to battle it faster so my
thought is maybe some of you guys are
just staying at home hunkering down you
want to eat healthy you don't know what
to do you would kind of want to maybe
meal plan this is something that it's
gonna work for you there's basically no
standard recipe for minestrone soup it's
kind of a tomatoey based soup that uses
whatever you have a wrap somebody
ingredients or regular vegetables celery
onion carrot garlic I've got some
cannellini beans it's best to use dry
beans always but the idea of this sort
of taking advantage of the pantry and
stuff that we've sort of set up a month
ago really not knowing any of this issue
was going to happen but this is why we
prepare ourselves so that we're ready to
feed ourselves with a lot of stuff that
we should already be having and so I
always keep cannellini beans in my
pantry and so I'm gonna use them today
I've got some ditalini which is the
pasta that is used for minestrone
just a little noodle with a hole in it
and this could totally be vegetarian but
I have some pancetta leftover from the
Grisha episode so I'm gonna kind of cook
that and use that to flavor that's just
so it's really delicious I also got some
kale that I'm gonna throw in here which
is always super healthy to use you know
I like kale and then I've got some bro
dough this should be the amount of
liquid that we use for the soup and if
we need any more we can add water so
this is it we're basically gonna give
this you know cook all this stuff
together all we need to do is roughly
chop vegetables so let's just jump right
into it just chop them like normal we'll
chop the carrots into little dices and
the celery into dices and onion into
dices got my frozen bag vegetables here
just keep adding to it
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make sure your kale is washed always and
so here we have our chopped up
vegetables mirepoix
we've got our chem aleni beans we've got
some thyme and a little bay leaf tied up
right here we've got our pasta our kale
and our pancetta it's all pretty simple
it's gonna come together really quickly
let's move on over to the stove and make
it all happen get a pot on medium heat
and then add the pancetta and a little
bit of olive oil and just start
rendering out that pancetta fat I want
to get that pinch at a fat fully
rendered out and get the pancetta meat
nicely Brown adjust the heat if it gets
a little too hot then we can add the
vegetables season them so we can release
some of that moisture and we just want
to sweat the vegetables until they're
soft and translucent once soft we can
add our broth as well as our Tomatoes
give it a nice mix and add the herbs the
kale and the cannellini beans another
round of seasoning we seasoned up in
layers and if you have a parmesan rind
you can add that as well mix that all
together and bring that up to a boil
once boiling you want to drop that down
to a simmer and we just want to cook
this for about 30 or 40 minutes until
the vegetables are nicely softened but
still have a little bit of bite to them
and the flavors have come together
nicely once the soup is done give it a
final taste and adjust the seasoning now
the base of the soup is ready now this
ladle is a 1 cup ladle so about 2 to 2
and 1/2 cups is a serving of soup so
ladle out a couple servings into a
smaller pot that we can eat now and save
the rest for later added it shalini and
a little bit of water if you need to
thin it out a bit and then we're just
going to cook that pasta until it's
perfectly al dente and the sauce has
thickened nicely
now you're ready to serve now before you
plate this smells really good you want
to season it I think it could use a
little pinch of salt and then a little
black pepper I'm gonna garnish with a
little Parmesan cheese and then some
really good finishing olive oil that my
friend thats our dowel started selling
it's straight from Puglia some of the
best olives in the world this is a
finishing olive oil that we're just
gonna finish on top a little bit of
fresh parsley as well
I love me some cheese in my soup it's
comfort in a bowl it's tomatoey it's
brothy you can control the thickness you
could make this like chili like you can
make it a little soupy er mine is like a
little balanced it gets thicker as it
kind of sits and as the pasta cooks for
sure like I said you could always adjust
with water depending on how you like it
and the pause is perfectly cooked now if
we put the pasta into the big pot of
soup when we put that away now cuz I
have so much more left over about half
of that left over that pasta continues
to absorb the soup it will double in
size it'll get mush and like just
totally overcooked not even cooked its
hydrated it gets over hydrated and it's
no good now we have the base soup ready
we can put it away in the fridge and
whenever we want to make more soup we
can cook the pasta into it and it's
perfect every time of course if you
don't need pasta and gluten-free you
could just omit that although it does
add a lot well there you have it guys
this is something that you can make with
a lot of the stuff you'll find in your
pantry if you got your bro dough
situation going you have really good
quality healthy broth or stock but you
could use your freezer should be full of
it
you got cans of tomatoes ready to go
beans in the pantry
you should have some vegetables lying
around maybe you don't have everything
maybe you have potatoes maybe you have
some green beans or something whatever
throw it in that's what this soup was
made for super hearty super delicious
the perfect thing to make when you're in
quarantine never thought I'd say that
I'm thinking of my friends over in Italy
I know you guys are going through a
particularly tough time right now so
thinking of you guys sending you guys
some love and I know the rest of the
followers here in America are as well
and to everyone else in the world who is
having a bit of a moment hopefully this
makes you feel better hopefully it gives
you something to cook things are just a
little crazy right now they will blow
over keep your head on straight
be smart be clean and as always that's
all that I have today I'll see you next
time until then take care of yourself
guys and go feed yourself
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