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Thanks for visiting! Pasta Fagioli Soup. Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Pasta Fagioli Soup It’s September and that means soup season is FINALLY here!!!!
I can now make and eat soup anytime I want to and no one can look at me funny! Hah Although, I must tell you… I was utterly SHOCKED at how popular my Chicken Tortilla Soup post was in the dead heat of August… so I know there are other summer (and year-round for that matter) soup lovers out there! ;-) Okay, I have always been a huge fan of Pasta Fagioli Soup. Lasagna Soup. All the flavors of lasagna in a comforting, cozy soup with a dollop of ricotta goodness that gets melted right into the soup!
With the low temperatures settling in, I’ve been on a major soup kick lately. See, back in LA, we never really had a winter season so I was able to walk around in my flip flops throughout the year. But here in the Bay Area, I’m constantly wrapped up in sweats along with the electric blanket and a bowl of a soup to keep me warm and cozy.
And with my new home-grown basil, I just had to use it in this soup. Now, I’ve had many basil plants in the past years but somehow, Jason and I can’t seem take care of one. But with my new AeroGarden ULTRA, Jason and I can manage to grow these gorgeous basil plants without being plant killers! All you need to do is add water and nutrients when indicated, and it even has programmable grow lights that turn on and off by itself to simulate the sun. But what makes this soup over-the-top is the ricotta center. Ingredients Instructions. Lasagna Soup. Do you have a PINTEREST account?
You can follow me HERE if you’d like to, I’d love to have you follow! Share on Pinterest Do you like lasagna? If you answered yes, or even no, you’re going to want to make this soup! This is definitely one of my new favorite soups. With this recipe you can use half Italian sausage in place of half of the ground beef. This simple recipe may look rather complex due to the long list of ingredients but it’s mostly just those dried herbs and plenty of cheese so don’t miss out on this recipe thinking it’s too much. Lasagna Soup.
Lasagna Soup This Lasagna Soup is truly like lasagna in a bowl.
The flavors are lovely. And the ooey gooey cheesy concoction at the bottom of the bowl is YUM! With spring officially arriving last weekend, this house could pretty much assume that soup would be a rarity for a few months. I’m just not the kind to put a hot pot on the stove during the spring and summer, unless we have some unseasonably cool weather. But just as soon as spring finally decided to peek out, it disappeared. Gone. Nowhere to be found. When we awoke Wednesday morning, it was to the broadcast of yet another winter storm warning. Italian Sausage Tortellini Soup. We make soup for dinner all of the time.
Some like to serve soup as a starter to a meal, but we usually use it as the main course. If you don’t think soup can be a meal all by it’s lonesome, then you haven’t tried Josh’s Italian Sausage Tortellini Soup. This soup has it all-sausage, cheese, pasta, and veggies. Zuppa Toscana. Zuppa Toscana A couple of weeks ago we had lunch with my husband’s grandmother.
She picked one of her lunchtime favorite spots, Olive Garden. Even though it’s not our favorite spot, I knew we could find something on the menu that wasn’t that bad. We told her we hadn’t been there in years and asked her to suggest something good. Pasta Fagioli. Zuppa Toscana Recipe (a la Olive Garden) Somehow, in all my 27 long years of life, I was never introduced to Olive Garden’s famous “Zuppa Toscana”…..until recently.
One of my good friends lives right by the OG, and suggested we pop over for their unlimited soup/salad lunch on our day off. And then she insisted — as I was about to order the minestrone — that I try the “Zuppa Toscana” instead. I actually really like a good minestrone, but decided to take her word for it. And sure enough… It was a match made in heaven. :) Oh my word. So of course I had to come home and try it for myself. So if you’re a fan of the famous “Zuppa Toscana”, or have yet to have ever tried it, I strongly recommend that you try this recipe at home. Zuppa Tuscana (a la Olive Garden) Recipe(Inspired by The Olive Garden) Ingredients: 1 pound hot (spicy) Italian sausage1 Tbsp. olive oil3 garlic cloves, peeled and minced1 medium onion – peeled, chopped1-2 lbs. Method: In a skillet over medium-high heat, brown sausage, breaking into small pieces as it cooks.