Important components:

QuoteMirepoix (pronunciation: meer-PWAH) is the aromatic flavor base made by lightly cooking onions, celery, and carrots. The vegetables are cooked slowly in butter or oil in order to coax out the flavors without browning or caramelizing them.

You will find a variant of this in most French, Italian, and Spanish cooking.

Other trios and bases: 

Cajun Holy Trinity: onion, bell-pepper, celery
Spanish/Latin Sofrito: onions, garlic, tomato
German Suppengrün: leeks, carrots, celery
Chinese Trio: scallions, ginger, garlic 
Indian Curry base: ginger, garlic, onion.
"Marry Me Chicken" base: garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, red pepper flakes.
Costco "F-It I married" Trio: Croissant, Brazi-Bite, Macaroon.
Costco "Good Behavior" Trio: sardines, olive oil, faith.       
Safe Password Base: uppercase letter, cursive letter, number, haiku, hieroglyph, your first born sacrificed, blood of a virgin without Jesus as external stimulus.

Quote from: sub rosa on Aug 21, 2026, 09:03 PMCajun Holy Trinity: onion, bell-pepper, celery

Toss in some jalapeno, garlic, and lemon for the TX version.

QuoteItalian holy trinity: crime, anarchy, grease

This for Pho, minus the fat. Skim all that after sticking the bone broth in the fridge overnight. Any truly patriarchal recipe takes at least two days. 
"Make me a sandwhich." Rofl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT6yW22IbtY&list=PLxi-lTprngICht88mooGyfIz0AdO3GCWl&index=2

A true patriarchy might mandate a bone pot and a soup pot on each hearth.

You're starting to get the hang of it. They should also mandate a pot of fee-fees in each heart.
Problem is many of those "true patriarchies" don't deserve their patriarchal conditions.

Bone pot? ... Hm. The bones go in the soup. I'll refrain from further commentary on Bones and the Patriarchy. 

The point of a patriarchy is to protect women and children from a world that men know is viciously self-interested. Hippity-hoppity, women are property... because property gets defended, while letting people who are unable to fend for themselves loose on a world of predators is dooming them. Also true of serfs, children, and attic casement writers.

I think it is possible for humans to defend and help others they care about without "owning" them like an object with no autonomy and voice.

Statistically, the greatest danger women and children face comes from their very much self-interested  'owners,' not from vicious predators 'out there.'

And while "owning" someone can be a very sweet thing, metaphorically speaking, the masses of idiot "owners" do not understand metaphor and tend to abuse and control what they're told they're entitled to through the universal system of "ownership."

There's a dark side of possession (self-serving control without care) and a light/benevolent side (containment, as one experiences the well-being of the other as one's own).

There's also the problem when these living, talking, sentient 'objects' would prefer not to be "owned" at all, or would rather transfer the "ownership" to someone else. 

Children are granted emancipation soon enough. Women? ...

The problem with the Patriarchy as we know it is that it is too much like Feminism: it is egalitarian and universal.
It grants credits and absolute rights to idiots and non-idiots alike by virtue of sex only.