I decided to try a recipe from one of my favourite magazines - Woman's World. I buy it every week for it's recipes and cake ideas. I found this recipe in the September 27th, 2010 edition and decided to give it a whirl. We love soup for dinner and I am always looking for new soup recipes. The only thing I will do differently next time is NOT cook the noodles in the soup like it says to do. I never do with my other soups but I was following the recipe for the first time. We had the soup for dinner and I used the Dempster's brown and go loaves. They are great!
Oops forgot to thaw the Italian sausages the night before so into a cold water bath they went while I got everything together and chopped the vegetables. It took about an hour to get them soft to the touch so I could cook them.
I used homemade canned tomatoes that my Mom and I did this year.
Instead of using spray cooking oil I used Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Recipes says to brown the sausage links first. Next time I am going to brown them more.
I added fresh garlic to the chopped vegetables. The recipe called for canned tomatoes with basil, garlic and oregano so I just added the spices to the mixture.
The smell of the sausage and vegetables sauteing together was mouth watering.
I put everything into a slow cooker because I thought hubby wouldn't be home for a while and he actually came home as I was taking this picture. I then just set the slow cooker for 4 hours and waited.
The next time I will omit this step and cook the noodles by themselves in a chicken broth. They disintegrated in the broth and made the soup almost stew like.
My new love...heat and serve baguette from Dempster's.
The finished product.
