Soup, a blanket, and a rainy day
It was a rainy, dreary day today. The perfect weather to make soup. I don’t really have a name for this soup and it’s basically a bunch of recipes combined, but it was sooooo yummy.
I started off by browning some Italian sausage in a heavy soup pot. It wasn’t enough to cook them all the way through, just enough to get them browned on the outside. Then I took them out, covered them and put them to the side for a while. I put a little more olive oil in the pan and added half of a yellow onion. I wanted to add garlic as well, but didn’t realize I didn’t have any in the fridge. Once the onions were cooked, I added collard greens and sauteed them a little before adding the chicken stock. I put in about four cups of chicken broth and four cups of water, along with tons of black pepper, some red pepper flakes, a chicken bouillon cube, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and season salt. I let the collard greens simmer for about an hour and a half until they were almost tender. I cut up the sausage that I’d put to the side into bite size pieces, added that in, along with a can of black eyed peas, and mushrooms. After about 45 minutes, I added the final ingredient…zucchini. I let that simmer until the zucchini was tender and the soup was done. The soup ended up being just a little too spicy, but the next time I make it, I’ll just cut back on the red pepper flakes. I also made croutons to go with it!
