Minestrone Soup and the missing Beans.

Ah ’tis the season for soup! Everyone loves some sort of soup! It’s warm, it’s hearty,  comforting,  it brings back some sort of nice cozy memory hopefully! Soup is always a fun thing in our house as I always seem to change things even if everyone loved the original. It happens a lot, mainly with soup though. It just ends up being a ” what do I have on hand today” kinda of soup. Always turns out great.

This past week Minestrone Soup was on the menu, had everything on hand too, even went to the store to make sure I had everything! Then it happens, without even trying, or thinking – I left out the beans. It’s always something, but at least this time it wasn’t something significant.  No one noticed but me because I was the one who read off the ingredients anyways, so it didn’t really matter. Didn’t change the recipe I felt either so it’s still being called Minestrone Soup- just without beans. If you wanted to add the beans it’s just about 1 cup and a half of cooked white beans, I included it in the recipe itself just in case. Over all though we all really enjoyed this soup. Tastes great with warm fresh bread or rolls! 

This is also an awesome soup to cook in a crock-pot, which lets you do practically nothing at all and still get amazing soup! For this I would chop all vegetables and place them in the crock-pot with the broth and water, have this cook for about 4 hours on low or medium, simply add the pasta in about 45ish minutes before you want to eat. It should be done, or let it sit a little longer.  Enjoy good soup without the hard work!