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Posted Feb 04, 2012 @ 09:30 PM

Sausage Soup

By Mindy Moore

This one has a lot of vegetables, but comes with enough spicy meat that when you serve it with cheese and crackers or bread, you can make a filling meal with this great hearty soup.

I had some breakfast sausage I didn't want to use as such, so I checked online and came across this recipe on allrecipes.com by Behr. My substitute worked pretty well, but here is the original for anyone so inclined.

Note the LARGE stock pot... it is definitely a big-quantity recipe. The original recipe says it serves 6.

The Ingredients:

1 pound Italian sausage

1 cup chopped celery

1 cup chopped carrots

2 onions, chopped

1 (28 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes

with juice

6 cups chicken broth

1 1/2 cups shredded cabbage

2 teaspoons dried basil

2 cups bow tie pasta

1/2 teaspoon garlic salt

"In a soup pot, cook sausage over medium heat until no pink remains." If you're using breakfast or another kind of heat-and-eat sausage, slice it up, throw it in, and skip to step 2.

"Add onions, celery, and carrots. Cook uncovered for 5 minutes, or until onions are soft." I swished them around a while until some started to cook, then I skipped ahead to step 3 because I let it boil on the stove for a while to meld the flavors...

"Add tomatoes, chicken broth, cabbage, and basil. Bring to a boil. Stir in macaroni" [bow tie pasta], "and cover. Simmer for 10 minutes, or until pasta is tender. Season with garlic salt. Serve." It's really good when it's cooked for a while and the cabbage is good and soggy, but don't add the pasta too early or it'll get soggy too, and two soggy things are not so pleasant in this dish, in my opinion.

I feel that the leftovers aren't as stellar either, but Husband hasn't complained, so if soggy noodles don't bother you then make the full recipe and dine happily again... and again...

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