Recipe Accident

   File under "waste not, want not."

  Here’s a recipe that happened by accident. I had a few spare vegetables lying around: three carrots, an onion, one zucchini, and a quarter head of cabbage—I had zero garlic in the house. I cut them up and put them in salted water with pimentón dulce. I turned the heat way down, then went to my office to work.

   I set the stopwatch on my phone so I could keep on eye on the time. I was so into what I was doing that I let it cook for a bit over an hour when I was thinking that twenty minutes should have been sufficient. I was surprised that none of the vegetables were mushy after all this time, but the flame was super low. I zipped this up with my stick blender.

    I was bowled over by how good this simple broth came out. Although the ingredients to my mistake aren't the same, I could say this dish was based loosely on a simple dish here called hervido valenciano, only because I was talking about this with a friend the day before.