Italian Sausage & Vegetable Soup

This recipe is one of those that just has to do be in my blog. I have always loved Italian sausage soup since I lived in the USA. This recipe is perfect and not hard.

INGREDIENTS:

-6 medium sausages.
-2 carrots.
-1 zuchinni.
-1 medium onion.
-3 celery stalks.
-1 clove of garlic.
-1,5 litres of water.
-1/2 of vegetable stock.
-1 tspoon of thyme.
-400 grams of diced tomatoes.
-a bundle of some frozen spinach.
-pepper and salt.
-optional: some pasta/potatoes.
-optional: white beans.

STEPS:

1. Brown the sausages in a pot and set apart. I use the same one for the entire recipe.
2. Dice up the vegetables, including the garlic in little squares and sautee in the pot in which you have just fried the sausages a bit. Sautee them for 10 minutes until they soften up a little.
3. Now add the pepper and salt and add the can of diced tomatoes the thyme and the water and stock.
4. Add the sausage that you have sliced up and bring everything to a boil. 
5. Now reduce heat and let it simmer to medium fire. 
6. After another 10 minute add the pasta, spinach and beans.
7. After 10-15 minutes pasta should be done and it will all have come together nicely.

Yum, serve with bread, crisps, etc. I add the beans and the pasta to make it a complete meal and forget about it all.