The MAYBE Soup

Today we are making a different kind of sausage soup. Now really, there is nothing like the original sausage soup that spurred my kitchen adventures over a year ago. That recipe is spicy sausage, diced potato, and kale in chicken broth. Nothing better. So I was, of course, skeptical to hear about this recipe, but it looked different enough. Also I already messed up the ingredients so it will truly be my own creation, as inspired by THIS.

WARNING: I've had better. read all the way through before you get inspired.Also, no disrespect to the link provided, I did things a bit differently than she. (was that correct grammar? differently? is that a word?)

I’ll call this:

The MAYBE Soup

Ingredients:

-carton of chicken broth

-1 big thing of sausage, chopped up

-2 cans white beans

-1 can full of fresh chopped tomatoes

-4 sprigs thyme (my new favorite ingredient as of recently)

-1 white Onion, chopped

- 4 small cloves Garlic, chopped

So before I read the recipe, I started with olive oil and garlic, and then I added chopped onion, but then the garlic burned, and then I read the original recipe, and it said to start with sauté-ing sausage, then adding garlic and onion. This is why I will never have my own cooking show.  Here are the directions as I did it, In red I’ll put what I should have done.

To Do:

.)    Chop 4 small cloves of garlic and add to olive oil at bottom of soup pot.

.)    Chop small onion and add to pot. Cover and cook until translucent. Maybe also don’t cover it, and just stand there and mix it around until the onions are cooked enough.

.)    Add sausage, turn heat to low and cover, stirring occasionally. After the sausage looks good enough…

.)    Add 1 Can worth of chopped tomatoes (the original recipe said one can diced tomatoes, but I was feeling like we hadn’t done the fresh food thing in a while, and I’ve been missing vegetables, so I thought, what the hay. Let’s just buy some tomatoes, it will take me 2 minutes to cut them, and I’ll feel way better about whatever I’m making.

.)    Add 1 cans of beans (these are a pain to cook from scratch. Hence, the cans.)

.)    Add 4 sprigs of thyme

.)    Add 1 carton (32 oz, 4 C, 1 Qt) of chicken broth.

.)    The recipe that I started from says to cook for 30 minutes, but I’m going to cook it all day because this morning was when I had time to make it and tonight is when I will have time to eat it. May add some water later as well.

.)    At the very end, I will add 6 oz. of fresh spinach, and probably some fresh basil. We also bought fresh-ish Parmesan so we’ll try that too. Wish me luck. 

Survey says:

This was super salty- use less chicken broth, more water, we also simmered it basically all day which probably made the broth more concentrated. Spinach was good, but truly do use recommended 10 oz. We only used 5-ish oz. and it was lacking. Also, I would just as well make my old stand by and swap spinach for kale, beans for potatoes, and sausage with spicy sausage, leave out the tomatoes and call it a day. David seemed more excited about this one. My stomach respectfully disagreed.