Is everyone’s family as kooky as mine? Wait, don’t answer that.
But truly, when I look at how many different dishes we sometimes have at the same table, I do feel like we are more diner than family-style when it comes to meals. There’s my dad with the tattered but still crazy vegan diet that says you shouldn’t combine vegetables that grow above ground and below ground in the same meal (wtf?), my child who eats well, but rejects most soups and has a limited vegetable acceptability quotient; my mom who likes what she likes when she likes it and is not always easy to predict, and me, who eats mostly salad and picks at everyone else’s when she doesn’t really mean to and then complains about weight management. Four people, four different meals.
Ridiculous.
But then, sometimes you hit on something that is one dish that everyone can eat and modify to their liking.
The vegan vegetable soup base
Hot, Cheap & Easy 