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Title: Basil Pesto Tortellini Soup
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Published: Aug 5, 2012
Author: CZ82
Post Date: 2012-08-05 07:57:46 by CZ82
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Basil Pesto Tortellini Soup
Ingredients
• 1 cup chopped green onions(2 bunches)
• 4-15oz cans Chicken Broth
• 1 package Cheese Tortellini uncooked fresh or frozen (12-16 ounces)
• 8 ounces Baby Portobello Mushrooms - chopped
• 1/3 cup Basil Pesto (DeLallo)
• ½ Tsp Kosher Salt
• Parmesan Cheese freshly grated
Directions
In a 5 quart saucepan, combine broth, salt and green onions. In order to get the right flavor this mixture must come to a boil.
Add mushrooms and cook for 3 minutes then add remaining ingredients and cook long enough that pasta cooks according to directions. Serve immediately and sprinkle with freshly grated Parmesan. Some crusty Garlic Bread would go good with this....
Poster Comment:
This only takes about 20 minutes to prepare.. If you want some meat in the soup then just change the cheese tortellini to meat tortellini...
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Simple. Tasty. (but no tomato?)
#2. To: Liberator (#1)
Simple. Tasty. (but no tomato?)
No tomato, but I do have another Tortellini soup recipe that utilizes diced tomatoes.....
Hot Italian Sausage and Tortellini Soup
Ingredients
• 2 Tbsp Olive Oil
• 1 Lb Hot Italian Sausage
• 1 Lb of Cheese Tortellini
• 1 Head Escarole or 1-6oz Pkg Baby Spinach
• 1 Lg Onion, finely chopped
• 8 cloves garlic, minced or (3 Tsp Roasted Garlic powder)
• 4-5 cans Chicken broth
• 2 cans Diced Tomatoes
• 2 cans Cannellini Beans
• 1 Tsp Crushed Red Peppers
• 1 Tsp Salt
• 1 Tsp Pepper
• Fresh grated Romano cheese for topping
• Sourdough garlic bread (or other crusty bread)
Directions
In a large pot heat Olive oil over medium heat, add sausage, lightly brown and crumble. When lightly browned add onion and cook for 5-7 minutes, then add escarole/spinach and garlic and cook for another 3 minutes.
Add chicken broth, diced tomatoes, cannellini beans, salt, pepper, and crushed red peppers, bring to a boil then reduce to a simmer and cook for about 7-10 minutes.
In the meantime cook Tortellini in a separate pot, drain, rinse and set aside….
When soup is ready add tortellini, ladle into bowls, top with Romano cheese and serve with garlic bread.
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
#3. To: CZ82 (#2)
Man, that sounds good. And healthy. Not much work either. Escarole instead of spinach for me. I use chicken sausage instead these days. With fennel. Top that off with some good Pecorino Romano and that garlic bread and a glass of vino. Mmmm...
#4. To: Liberator (#3)
I use chicken sausage instead these days.
Instead of using store bought Hot Italian sausage that has quite a bit of fat in it I make my own with extra lean pork. When you get done cooking it the skillet is dry instead of greasy...
I found a website that has all kinds of sausage recipes on it for mostly dried or dried/smoked sausages. I just use their recipe ingredients and substitute the lean ground pork and do it in 1LB increments, turns out pretty good...
lpoli.50webs.com/Sausage%20recipes.htm
If you decide to try this and want some tips just holler and I will help, it's really much easier that using casings and a casing stuffer.... Plus you can either pan fry, grille or smoke to get the flavoring you desire....
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
#5. To: CZ82, Liberator (#4)
Here's the recipe for my dinner tonight...
1. Go to Hardees and order the Frisco burger meal deal.
2. Walk back to hotel room and eat Frisco burger meal deal.
:o(
"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave." Samuel Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
#6. To: We The People (#5)
1. Go to Hardees and order the Frisco burger meal deal.2. Walk back to hotel room and eat Frisco burger meal deal.
Hardees burgers are about the best you can get from a fast food joint.. The only problem is they don't sell beer to go with it... :o(
So why are you in a hotel room?? Business trip??
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
#7. To: CZ82 (#6)
Yeah, I travel a lot.
"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave." Samuel Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
#8. To: We The People (#7)
Yeah, I travel a lot.
Doesn't that get old after awhile??
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
#9. To: CZ82 (#4)
Instead of using store bought Hot Italian sausage that has quite a bit of fat in it I make my own with extra lean pork. When you get done cooking it the skillet is dry instead of greasy...I found a website that has all kinds of sausage recipes on it for mostly dried or dried/smoked sausages. I just use their recipe ingredients and substitute the lean ground pork and do it in 1LB increments, turns out pretty good...
lpoli.50webs.com/Sausage%20recipes.htm
If you decide to try this and want some tips just holler and I will help, it's really much easier that using casings and a casing stuffer.... Plus you can either pan fry, grille or smoke to get the flavoring you desire....
I'll take you up on that ;) I just got a grinder not too long ago and need to make sure of it.
Thx for the website too.
#10. To: CZ82 (#8)
Doesn't that get old after awhile??
Yes, it does.
But normally I only travel and work Mon. thru Thurs. then I have 3 day weekends at home. But maybe 10 or 12 times a year I'm gone longer. I have done 4 weeks at a time away from home without a day off. But I enjoy what I do so it could be worse. :o)
"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave." Samuel Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
#11. To: We The People (#10)
But I enjoy what I do so it could be worse.
That's good...
The longest I ever had to stay in a Hotel room was right at 4 months when I went to Ankara, Turkey... And we had to take a bus that was about 40 years old back and forth to the jobsite... The hotel sat on a hill we nicknamed "Heart Attack Hill", about half the time the bus could only get about half way up the hill and you would have to walk the rest of the way.... LOL....
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
#12. To: Serenissima Venezia (#9)
Thx for the website too.
A lot of the recipes are in 5lb increments and the hardest thing to do is figure out how to reduce the spices to make the recipe in 1 lb increments just so you can try it to see if you like it...
Once I've figured that out I put all of the spices and fresh ingriedients into a large bowl and add a couple of Tablespoons of water to them. This I mix up into a slurry because it makes it much easier and faster to get it evenly distributed throughout the pork... (Not too much water though because it will become a sticky mess)... Once your slurry is made add the pork and knead well to distribute the slurry, put it in a Large Ziplock and store in the fridge overnight to give the flavors a chance to marry... Then the next day do whatever you want to it, pan fry, grille, smoke or just crumble up and cook to add to something like a soup....
Not all of the recipes are for pork, some use hamburger, chicken, veal and turkey... So use your imagination!!!
I haven't gotten around to smoking any of this yet so don't know how much that changes the flavor of the recipe... But I really need to do it because I want to make some Tasso ham for my Red Beans and Rice recipe... I'm currently using store bought which is almost $14 a pound...
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
#13. To: We The People, CZ82 (#5)
Here's the recipe for my dinner tonight...1. Go to Hardees and order the Frisco burger meal deal.
2. Walk back to hotel room and eat Frisco burger meal deal.
:o(
ROFL...But all that clean-up, disposing the wrappers, napkins, and cups...(or if you're like me, you just cram it all back in the bag then toss it behind the seat for a few months - or until some PITAs decide they need to sit in the back seat.)
You make it sound like...some kind of special Pacific Beef Cuisine. Are you balancing that with a salad and water (with free lemon wedge?) Then back at the hotel turning on CNN and getting agita?
I do Wendy's. Wish there were a Chick-Fil-A around.
#14. To: CZ82, We The People, Mad Dog, all (#4)
Instead of using store bought Hot Italian sausage that has quite a bit of fat in it I make my own with extra lean pork. When you get done cooking it the skillet is dry instead of greasy...
Good idea. You could throw a bit of olive oil in there to moisten it...
Pork tastes good BUT is rough on the digestive system. And gives me agita.
Alright brutha...Here's a simple Italian Secret Recipe for "sausage" with either Beef or Chicken (or for Dawg, venison):
CRUCIAL: Buy/order powdered fennel at a health food store (comes in handy capsules - it's good for digestion & gas too); If not available, you'll need fennel seeds. Dried Basil. Dried garlic. Parsley flakes. A little chopper red pepper. Salt & Pepper to taste. Hot pepper flakes. Little Olive oil. Aged Locatelli Romano cheese (optional, but you'll use it on so much Italian cooking, it'll be invaluable). Fugetabout the casing.
Mix. Saute. Budda-Bing. Budda-Boom. Mangia.
Want meatballs instead? Just remove the red pepper. Go easy on the hot pepper flakes. Add everything else. Add a couple of pieces of crumbled bread (or breadcrumbs) and egg or two so it all binds together. You NEED the Locatelli Romano. Seriously.
Bake or brown in a bit of olive oil.
Scarf. Save/Freeze.
#15. To: CZ82 (#12)
Once I've figured that out I put all of the spices and fresh ingriedients into a large bowl and add a couple of Tablespoons of water to them. This I mix up into a slurry because it makes it much easier and faster to get it evenly distributed throughout the pork... (Not too much water though because it will become a sticky mess)... Once your slurry is made add the pork and knead well to distribute the slurry, put it in a Large Ziplock and store in the fridge overnight to give the flavors a chance to marry... Then the next day do whatever you want to it, pan fry, grille, smoke or just crumble up and cook to add to something like a soup....
Sounds like fun - I can't wait to get back and get started.
the website you posted already gave me a good hint - my first grinding session looked like the 'wrong' picture, so I need to cut my meats better first. Nice to know it's not my grinder ;)
#16. To: Serenissima Venezia (#15)
the website you posted already gave me a good hint
Good I hope you like it... I think I have tried about 30 or so of the recipes and most of them have been pretty good..
I just made some Green Chorizo Sausage this morning and the wife thought it tasted like Sausage you would put on a pizza!! go figure.....
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
#17. To: CZ82 (#16)
Know anything about making cheese?
That is one hobby I really want to get into. I've found some lovely areas of the country and have the deep desire to have a farm, chicken, goats - and make cheese from goat milk. I'm going to start practicing when I get home, in case my dream ever comes true.
#18. To: Serenissima Venezia (#17)
Know anything about making cheese?
Can't say that I do, but I wouldn't be afraid to say you could find something on the Internet about the process...
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
#19. To: Liberator, ALL sane AMERICANS (#14)
.
Sounds good Lib.
I'm done wrasslin half witted diseased pigs.
It's face to FACE from now on for me.
Keeps it real.
Best to you and yours always.
Gotta go drag and stack cants.
Later.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
FTW
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
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