gremliness mentioned a ways back that she had started to cook many experimental dishes since she moved out of her parents' house. Today I decided to take a cue from this, and hied me to the grocery store to buy a bunch of random whatever-looked-good and make some kind of stew or soup out of it. What I ended up with was a kind of cooked-vegetables-with-broth thing (stews have thicker sauces, and soups have more liquid) that was actually pretty good.
( Vague directions follow. )