Simple, Sunday Meals - Soup and Sandwich

Salad:
Carrot, cucumber, lettuce & tomato

Veggie Burgers sans Cheese:
Soy patties toasted with a little butter, shredded lettuce, tomato slices, cucumber slices, dill pickle along with mustard and ketchup gave company to toasted, multigrain, thin sandwich bread.

Minestrone Soup:
This wholesome Italian soup doesn't follow a standard recipe and can be either a vegetarian or a non vegetarian soup. It is prepared with the ingredients at hand and usually contains vegetables, beans and pasta.

Ingredients required for 6 servings:

• 1 - 2 Tbsp oil
• 1 small onion - peeled and diced
• 1 small carrot - peeled and diced
• 1 small potato - peeled and diced
• 1 tomato - diced
• 1 celery stick - diced
• 1/4 cup of zucchini cubes
• A handful of chopped green beans or frozen green peas
• Celery leaves
• 1/2 cup of tomato sauce
• 1/4 cup small shell pasta (I used elbow pasta.)
• 1/4 cup any white beans, cooked (I used navy beans.)
• 1 tsp - Italian seasoning
• Salt & pepper to taste
• (Also add garlic, if preferred.)

Making soup:
* Heat oil in a deep sauté pan and add the onions. Sauté them on low heat till they turn translucent. Then add carrot, potato, tomato, celery, celery leaves, zucchini, green beans or peas and add sufficient water. Cook on medium flame till the vegetables soften.
* Then add tomato sauce, seasoning and simmer for some more time.
* In the meantime, cook pasta al dente and drain.
* Stir in the cooked pasta and beans. Adjust the consistency of soup adding water, if needed and season with salt and pepper. Let it simmer for a few minutes more so that all flavors mingle.