Stephanie's Pasta Soup

 

It's cold again!!!!!! That means I get to make soup!

 

My girlfriend, Stephanie, doesn't cook. That's an important fact.

Well last month she hosted a dinner party at her beautiful home. When I tell you she did the doggone thang in the kitchen! She did that! The lasagna, the bruschetta, the salad....everything was delicious.  One of the dishes she made was Pasta Fagioli Soup (without Fagioli). Everybody kept going back for more. I couldn't get enough of that soup. It was spicy and filling and just plain old good! Traditional fagioli soup has beans(fagioli) but she omitted them. The vegetables and beef and pasta more than made up for the missing beans! This soup was very filling...the kicker? All made in the crockpot...FTW!!!  I scaled it down because I was hoping no one in my house liked it but me! #Greedy

 

Note that this is a soup recipe so you can adjust the flavors and liquids and vegetables to your liking.

 

Stephanie's Pasta Soup

 

What you need:

• 1/2 pound ground beef (or turkey)
• 1 small onion, rough chopped
• 3 carrots, rough chopped
• 2 celery stalks, rough chopped
• 4 whole garlic cloves
• 1 28 ounce can of diced tomatoes, undrained
• 2 cups beef stock (or vegetable stock or chicken stock)
• Tbsp oregano
• 2 tsp pepper
• 3 tsp parsley (I used fresh)
• 1 tsp Tabasco sauce (I used the green kind cause that's what I had on hand)
• 1 cup spaghetti sauce
• 4-6 ounces uncooked pasta (elbow macaroni, shells, etc)

 What to do:

• Brown ground beef. Drain fat from beef.
• Add beef along with the other ingredients, EXCEPT the pasta, to the crock pot
• Stir the ingredients to incorporate
• Cook on low 7-8 hours or on high for 4-5 hours
• During the last 30 minutes on high or 1 hour on low, add the uncooked pasta, stir to incorporate
• Continue to cook until pasta is cooked

 

Cook.Eat.Repeat.