Add the carrot and celery and cook over medium heat for 2 minutes.
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Add the onion, bay leaf and whole cloves of garlic.
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Stir and add the pepper.
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"all you really need is a big pot and some bacon bits.
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After that, you improvise....
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(otherwise) we are stuck with the tyranny of the formal recipe which defines the only way to do it in a form as exact, and frequently as exciting, as a prescription from the doctor."