10 Minute Meals

Now that I'm working from home, I'd love to experiment with actually eating lunch and eating it right - which in my book means DELICIOUS tasting (first), shortest prep time possible, virtually no clean up, and then finally, semi-good for me.  Yes, I'd like to have my cake and eat it too please.

My latest white bean one pot soup is spot on and is now my go to when I'm hungry and need something hot.

This soup is a keyed down version of a cranberry bean soup that we used to make at Masa's.  Of course, there, I shelled the beans by hand, and cooked them for 3 hours with a mirepoix.  Then, we had to make a bacon foam with gelatin and heavy cream, so that whole soup literally took 5 hours to make.

It's bliss when you can transform something so complicated into something so easy. Of course, true connoisseurs would never call it the same thing, but hey - I don't think they studied the economics of opportunity cost.  There's a scrooge in all of us.

 

The only thing I have to remember is to keep a can of cannellini beans ($0.89) from TJ's, and some heavy cream in my pantry.  The whole soup takes 10 minutes to make and clean up is just one pot and a blender.  

Whad'ya know. I might just start doing a 10 minute meal series.  Maybe I'll get famous!

Here's the recipe:

1 can of cannellini beans

1 cup water or chicken stock

1/4 cup heavy cream

salt & pepper to season

Rinse cannellini beans

Throw beans and water or stock in a sauce pan

Bring to a boil and add the cream

Return to a simmer

Whiz everything in a blender and season to taste

Serve yum.