Making Soup

Yesterday I made one of my favorite dishes; Pasta Vasul! This is one of those dishes that reminds you of childhood or home. I grew up with smelling the wonderful aroma of this cooking in a pot in the dead of winter on my grandmothers stove. Since the weather has turned a bit nippy here in the North East, I thought I'd make a pot of it for the week. YUMMM...you can see its in one of my favorite Ron Philbeck bowls and beside it in good company is a mug by Linda Christianson.
Here's how you make Pasta Vasul.

* Large can of crushed tom.
*2 cans diced tom.
* 2 cans white beans
* Two links of Italian sausage
* leaves from a couple celery stalks
* salt/pepper ( to your liking..about a two pinches)
* elbow pasta( to your liking)
* 2 TBS olive oil
*one whole onion

Take the sausage and lightly brown it in the bottom of the cooking pot with the olive oil.
Add a few leaves of celery ( I'd say about 4-7), cook on low.
Add your cans of Tomatoes. Cook for about 10 minutes
Add your beans, salt and pepper and whole onion. Leave cooking on low for about 40 minutes.
Add pasta when your ready to eat!

Its really easy and tastes great!