Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Watch out, Olive Garden!!


This is my version of Olive Garden's soup Zupa Toscana.  I had some white beans and ditalini instead of potatoes so I used those instead.  This soup is very easy to make and extremely tasty!

First cook up one pound of italian sausage.  Then saute half an onion and two cloves of minced garlic in some olive oil in a big pot.  After the onions have sweated out I added 10 cups of water and 5 chicken bouillion cubes and brought it to a boil.  I then added 4 or 5 handfuls of ditalini which is a short cut pasta(elbow macaroni would probably work too) and cooked it for 10 minutes. Then I added 2 cans of white beans, the sausage, one bundle of kale torn to bite-sized pieces,  and one cup of heavy whipping cream.  Let it sit for about 10 minutes and salt and pepper to taste.  Enjoy!