100% agree. Always do a little evaluation after a meal on what can be improved and this is pretty much exactly what I told the better half I needed to do.
So I loosely followed a couple recipes and combined them. One had the meat and veggies simmer in vegetable stock until it was just about gone and than add a little corn starch slurry to thicken it up and than I added maybe a 1/4 cup of heavy cream.
I'd steal some from you plate!