Mushroom soup:

This is vegetarian, can trivially be vegan, and it can be easy to make if you have problems chopping stuff.

Ingredients:

1 leek
garlic (I usually use about 1/3 of a tube of garlic puree)
a lot of mushrooms. I'd usually use 1-1.5kg of mushrooms, a mix of ordinary, shiitake, chestnut, forestiere - basically strongly-flavoured mushrooms. Sometimes I rehydrate a pack of dried mixed expensive mushrooms as well, if I remember.
some oil (I usually use olive, but I suspect you can't notice)
stock (I use Marigold Swiss vegetable bouillon, which is gluten-free.)
a bottle of cheap red wine (optional)
cream or creme fraiche (optional)
seasoning: I usually use pepper, paprika, and mixed herbs (or fresh basil, if I have any)

If you're using dried mushrooms, rehydrate them now. When you drain them, save the water.
Chop your leek. 
Massacre your mushrooms. I usually chop some (for texture), and food process the others. However, if chopping is a problem, food process the lot. If you want varying sized chunks, perhaps use button mushrooms, which you can just wash and put in whole.
Fry the leek, mushrooms, and garlic in the oil in a 2-3 litre saucepan/pot/thing. I usually start frying after I've attacked the first batch of mushrooms, so that they start rendering down, and make it less heavy to stir. I don't usually stir much - just enough to stop it sticking.
Put the kettle on, with around 1litre of water in it.
Once the last lot of mushrooms have been stirred in, I usually pour in a bottle of red wine (if you're not using red wine, then add 750ml more water). Then I season generously with pepper, paprika and herbs. I don't usually make the bouillon up properly - I just put in enough bouillon for around 1litre of water, and then empty the kettle on top, and stir it all up - this usually isn't hard work as there's so much liquid.
Cover, and leave to simmer for at least 30 minutes.

At this point, you can either serve it, freeze it, or stir in some cream/creme fraiche and then serve it. It will serve 6-8 depending on whether it's a full meal or not, and on appetite. You can add cheese if you want more protein.

 I tweeted earlier today about three people whose work I admire. I thought I'd write a bit more this evening, and add a fourth.

My mother, former Senior Lecturer at City University, London, modeller at Rolls Royce and Associates 

She was working in tech in the late 60s and early 70s, including that mathematical modelling stint at RR&A. A child-related career break (OK, she took time off to have me), led to a career change, which eventually led to her lecturing in medical statistics. She co-authored an awful lot of papers in a short space of time. It's an excellent concrete example of how you can change what you do, and how you can be successful.

Dr Laura James, a founding director of makespace.org, co-CEO of okfn.org/

Laura was my manager in my very first job in tech. She's a visionary who can turn that vision into a sensible, achievable plan. Having had other managers since then, I've started to see how very, very rare that is. Makespace is an incredibly cool project, and I'm really starting to warm to the Open Knowledge Foundation after reading her blog posts. 

Jennie Fletcher, lead developer for cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/

I've worked with Jennie for the past 18 months. I've been QA-ing her code, and I've been impressed with the consistent quality of the code she's produced. I'm also impressed with how the site works - I've had cause to use several sites which put scanned manuscripts etc. online, and, while CUDL's not perfect, it's definitely the best one I've used so far. That's at least in part because of the work Jennie's done on big, structural things. If I were composing a list of top 5 programmers whose work I've been involved in testing, Jennie would be on that list. I find that quite inspiring.

Professor Dame Athene Donald, professor at the Cavendish Lab, shortly to become Master of Churchill College Cambridge

She's shown me that women who are at the top of their field still experience everyday sexism, still feel uncertainty and a lack of confidence, still run across those unwritten rules. This makes me feel that I'm part of a community of STEM people, that I might be able to achieve something. It also reminds me of the equality that we should be striving to achieve.