How to Prepare Homemade Ribollita - Tuscan Italian minestrone (V & Ve)

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The ingredients needed to make Ribollita - Tuscan Italian minestrone (V & Ve):

1. Take 400 g cannellini beans or borlotti beans (if dried plan 12 hours ahead if canned it's faster)
2. Prepare 300 g stale bread or toasted bread like sourdough
3. Get 1 bunch cavolo nero
4. Get 1 bunch chard (I could only find rainbow chard)
5. Prepare 1/4 savoy cabbage (I couldn't find it)
6. Get 2 potatoes
7. Take 1 big white onion
8. Make ready 3 gloves garlic
9. Make ready 2 carrots diced
10. Prepare 1 stick celery
11. Prepare Parmesan rind (skip for VE option)
12. Get 1 cup passata
13. Get 1 big courgette or 2 small
14. Take rosmary
15. Make ready 2 bay leaves
16. Get thyme
17. Make ready 2 liter vegetable broth
18. Make ready extra virgin olive oil
19. Take salt & pepper
20. Prepare Grated parmesan to serve

Instructions to make Ribollita - Tuscan Italian minestrone (V & Ve):

1. If you have dried beans then start by putting them in lots of water for 12 hours before cooking, I leave mine overnight. They should double in size and get softer by the morning.
2. Cook the beans by adding them in a pot with LOTS of cold water, rosemary and bay leaves until it just starts to boil. Now bring the heat down to the very minimum on the smallest fire you have and leave to cook for 2 hours without mixing the beans so that they don't fall apart. Check to ensure that there is still water. (I would suggest putting the rosemary in a un-dyed cloth if you don't want to spend ages fishing out the needles from the beans like I had to do)
3. Whilst this is cooking you can start by chopping everything up like shown in the picture below. For the Parmesan rind if using, scrape the part with the numbers a bit and chop it into thing pieces
4. When the beans are ready fish them out and keep the water that you cooked them in. You can use that with some stock to make your vegetable broth.
5. Now put some butter and oil (oil only for vegan option) into a large pot, if cast iron or clay even better. Add the onion, celery and carrots until soft, add the potatoes and the parmesan grind if using and cook for a couple of minutes. Now add the passata and cook for a few minutes.
6. Add the cavolo nero, chard and cabbage and use some of the broth to cover most of the vegetables. The leaves don't need to be submerged at this point. as they will quickly diminish in size when cooked. Cover with a lid and cook for 2 hours checking every 30 min or so to ensure that the broth is not boiling down. If it looks too watery remove the lid to let it dry out.
7. In the meantime take more than half of the beans and mix with with a mixer until they become a thick puree. You will add this to the soup later on.
8. At the end of the 2 hours add the mixed beans and cook for another 30 minutes.
9. Final stage, add the courgettes and the whole cannellini beans and cook for a final 30 minutes.
10. To serve, toast the bread slices and put it at the bottom of a dish. Add the ribollita, sprinkle with extra virgin olive oil and a sprinkle of parmesan.

Foods That Make You Happy

In general, people have been trained to believe that “comfort” foods are bad for the body and should be avoided. Often, if your comfort food is basically candy or other junk foods, this can be true. Other times, though, comfort foods can be completely nutritious and it’s good for you to consume them. There are some foods that really can boost your moods when you consume them. When you feel a little down and are in need of an emotional boost, try a few of these.

Eggs, you may be astonished to find out, are fantastic at combating depression. Just see to it that you don’t toss out the egg yolk. When you would like to cheer yourself up, the yolk is the most essential part of the egg. Eggs, the egg yolk especially, are high in B vitamins. The B vitamin family can be terrific for elevating your mood. This is because they help your neural transmitters–the parts of your brain that affect your mood–function better. Try eating a few eggs to feel better!

Build a trail mix out of seeds and/or nuts. Your mood can be elevated by consuming peanuts, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and so on. This is because these nuts are rich in magnesium, which helps to boost serotonin production. Serotonin is a feel-good substance that dictates to the brain how to feel at any given point in time. The more of it in your brain, the more pleasant you’ll feel. Nuts, on top of raising your mood, can be a superb protein source.

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It’s not difficult to overcome your bad mood when you eat grains. Quinoa, millet, teff and barley are all actually excellent for helping raise your happiness levels. They fill you up better and that can help you with your moods as well. It’s not difficult to feel a little bit off when you feel famished! The reason these grains are so good for your mood is that they are not difficult for your stomach to digest. These foods are easier to digest than others which helps kick start a rise in your blood sugar which in turn takes your mood to a happier place.

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You can see, you don’t have to turn to junk food or foods that are not good for you to feel better! Try a couple of of these suggestions instead.