Sausage Tortellini Soup

With the start of the new year, I was recently contemplating some things I wanted to work on in the upcoming year.  This year I want to work a bit on the recipe book I am putting together for the kids.

I thought I would make a goal of posting a recipe and the cooresponding recipe card at least once a month.  That will accomplish two things, I will have made something that required a recipe, and I will have made the recipe card.

Let me just say...I have no intention of pursuing food blogging.  It is hard and time consuming!  Taking pictures of food is hard, and I don't have a big variety of dishes and place setting styling.  I have basic white Pfaltzgraff dishes that I got when we married almost 20 years ago.  I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of cooking, it really is not how I like to spend my time.  I like to make meals that are good, and my family will eat, but I also don't spend a lot of time meal planning and prep. I like easy and good, I find recipes on the internet and make modifications dependent on what I have in my pantry or what my family will actually eat.

Here is a recipe that was a hit - Sausage Tortellini Soup.

I made a few modifications to the recipe.  I used Graziano sausage.  It is a local sausage that has a bit of a spicy kick. I added a can of diced tomato and used low sodium chicken broth as a base.

This is a hearty "soup" that was a winner with everyone in the house, and was just as good reheated.    The younger kids have a hard time saying tortellini soup.  They just shortened that up and now call this Turtle soup.