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There seems to be a lot of interest on CE in weightloss, cooking, adulting and foodieism generally. Each of these interests motivate a board recipe topic.

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Carrot Soup
This recipe scales up or down perfectly. It freezes well and forgives a lot of creativity, so it's perfect for beginners of both cooking and meal prep. It's fairly low calorie, especially relative to purchased soups; if you're watching your sodium, adjust the broth type accordingly. It's also easily altered to be vegan or dairy free.

1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive or avocado oil
1 medium onion, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
2+ cloves garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme or parsley
5 cups chopped carrots
2 cups water
4 cups broth or stock
1.25+ cup Greek yogurt

To taste:
Salt
Pepper
Ginger
Turmeric
Sage
Optional: basil, coriander, cinnamon (trace), nutmeg, MSG, dill

Any of the following vegetables in quantities not to overpower the carrots or add more than two total cups of extra vegetation without extra liquid are perfectly suitable to supplement in:
Squash
Radishes
Peppers
Tomatoes

Heat butter and oil in a large pot over medium heat until the butter melts.

Rough cut vegetables. Add onion and celery; cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 4 to 6 minutes.

Add garlic and thyme (or parsley); cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 10 seconds.

Stir in carrots. Add water, broth and spices; bring to a lively simmer over high heat.

Reduce heat to maintain a lively simmer and cook until very tender, about 25 minutes.

Puree the soup in batches with yogurt in a blender until smooth. Mix all the batches together at the end before serving/freezing, to ensure that the spices and yogurt are evenly distributed.

Serves: This is a pretty big recipe, so halve it the first time you make it if you're not serving multiple people across a few meals' worth of leftovers or freezing it.

Toffee
Definitely not for a fitness regimen. You need a candy thermometer and patience, but it's not really very difficult if you can stir for twenty minutes at a time. Great holiday gift ranging from Halloween through Valentine's Day.

1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
4 to 5 tbsp water (just over 1/4 cup)
1 to 2 tbsp vanilla
1 to 2 tbsp malt

1/4 tsp salt if butter unsalted

1/4 cup extra water (see warning below)

Partially melt butter over medium-low heat. Combine other ingredients and mix everything together except the extra water, stirring continuously, until exactly 290 (about 18 minutes). Scrape the sides of the pot frequently to prevent burning.

Pour into foil-lined baking dish over any additives (nuts, chocolate, etc.). It will start to firm up immediately, but wait an hour or more to eat it to get the full crispness.

If it changes color to dark brown, its burnt; put the end product on vanilla ice cream, bourbon whipped cream, coffee, pumpkin pie, etc. to save face. This dish is to be called "smoky toffee."

To test a candy thermometer, boil water and stick it in. It should read 212F or 100C.

WARNING: Sometimes, the mixture becomes too dehydrated and all at once it falls apart, separating into an oil and a sand. This will ruin the toffee. BUT! If you keep an extra 1/4 cup of water nearby and throw it in when this happens, there will be a massive, exciting, alchemical fizzing as you stir. The mixture will expand in size and then shrink back down like nothing ever happened, back into its toffee mix form. It can usually be saved at this point without too much smoky flavor.

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Perfect Waffles

Incredibly light and crispy waffles, good enough to use as a dating technique. I have no reason to believe the recipe would be any different if you used a keto pancake mix. This recipe is as easy as owning a waffle iron. This can also be a newbie's first recipe with a "secret ingredient," the club soda.

1 egg
1 and 1/3 cup club soda
1/3 cup oil
2 cups of favorite pancake mix

Grease your waffle iron once it's preheated and every three or four waffles thereafter.

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salads r gud 4 u

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