Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, my toscana. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
My Toscana is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. My Toscana is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have my toscana using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make My Toscana:
- Prepare 8 chicken bouillon cubes
- Get 6 cup water
- Take 2 lb Ground Italian Sausage
- Get 6 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
- Get 1/2 medium onion, diced
- Prepare 2 clove minced garlic
- Prepare 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper
- Take 5 medium potatoes, diced
- Get 2 cup chopped kale
- Get 1/2 pints heavy cream
Instructions to make My Toscana:
- In a large bowl, combine bouillon cubes and water. Set aside.
- In a frying pan, fry bacon until crispy. Remove from pan to paper towels to drain, but keep the grease in your pan! Crumble bacon.
- Dice onion and add to bacon grease. Saute until translucent, about 8-10 mins. Add ground sausage, garlic and crushed red pepper. Cook sausage thoroughly.
- Peel and dice potatoes. At this point, decide what vessel you'll be using to continue cooking. I always throw everything in the crock pot, but a soup pot on the stove works just as well.
- Add sausage mixture into the crock pot, along with the crumbled bacon and potatoes. Pour your bowl of chicken stock from step one into the crock and set it on high for about three hours.
- Once the potatoes are fork tender, your soup is almost done. Wash and chop your kale (or cheat and buy prewashed kale greens at the store). Add to pot and stir. These will take about 10-15 minutes to wilt.
- Finish soup off by adding the heavy cream. Serve with grated Parmesan and some good bread for dipping.
How to Boost Your Mood with Food
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As you can see, you don’t have to turn to junk food or foods that are bad for you just so to feel better! Try a few of these instead!
