The Soup that I Adore!

Note:  I reheated the last of it this morning to take the photo....the kale is much prettier the first day.

I had never been impressed by soups until

I enjoyed this one at Olive Garden.

It is their Zuppa Toscana

and has a very 

lovely taste

and 

combines the foods I 

adore.

Potatoes

Sausage

Bacon

and 

Cream

I could probably stop right there

and you would know how wonderful it

is but I think I will share a 

copycat recipe 

like the one

I used for our Fellowship Meal on Sunday.

There are many of these recipes out there.

I have used two different ones and they 

have worked wonderfully.

Click on this for the recipe I worked from 

this past weekend. 

I say, worked from, because this makes 

soup for 6-8 and I was filling my crock pot.

So, I made some adjustments.....

but that is the beauty of soup.

It is very, very forgiving.

I've never had so many compliments on something

I've brought to the meal.

I have to admit, the soup is pretty amazing

and its not hard.

Just time consuming.

I had not known how to use kale

until I made this soup.

Delightful!

It is amazing how much of this

I actually made because we used it 

for our dinner on Saturday evening

and then as our boys friends came over

to hang out and spend the night they 

each had "some" too.

No arm twisting, or anything.

The fragrance of the soup is

very, very inviting.

Then it still nearly filled the crock pot

in the morning.

Although, after years of carrying 

pots of food in the car I did learn 

to put some of this into a lidded container

to finally fill the crock pot once we

arrived at church.

It has taken me years to 

get that idea.

All those Sundays with sloshed

chili in the trunk!

I'm obviously not the brightest 

bulb on the tree...

LOL.