Winter Minestrone Soup I Made It

Winter Minestrone Soup

Stellasmom 8 years ago

Have made this soup many times and its one of my families favorite. I've always made it exactly as the recipe states, but tonight I changed it up because my pantry didn't have all the ingredients. This time I used kale instead of swiss chard, pork n beads, because gasp I didn't have cannellini beans or northern beans and dry hard salami instead of pancetta. The pork n beans gave it a bit more tomato flavor where the cannellini beans tend to mask some of that flavor a bit and the salami was a nice change and texture over the pancetta.

Winter Minestrone

Flag
frankieanne 8 years ago said:

Welcome to the IMI, Stellasmom! Thank you for posting what you made here. I never would have thought of using pork and beans as a substitute for cannellini beans! Or salami for pancetta. Great save. This sounds like a great winter soup.

Flag
mommyluvs2cook 8 years ago said:

Hi Stellasmom, welcome!!! This sounds delicious, love the sound of the Swiss chard in this, thanks so much for putting this here!

Flag
bakerme 8 years ago said:

Welcome, Stellasmom! Nice save with the soup. It''s just getting cool enough here to think about soup, so I bought all of the ingredients for my own tried and true minestrone when I went grocery shopping last week - yum!

Flag
NPMarie 8 years ago said:

Thanks for the review..great job on subbing ingredients with what you had on hand! Sounds delicious:) Welcome to IMI Stellasmom!

Flag
Cosmicmother 8 years ago said:

This sounds so good Elaine! Thanks for posting this here!! :)
I love Giada's recipes but never made this one. I like your changes too, the salami sounds like a great change up! I can never find cannellini beans here, the last time I looked for them I ended up with pinto beans, lol :)
I'll definitely give this recipe a try too! :)

Flag
bakerme 8 years ago said:

Cosmicmom, I think Bush's makes them if you want to check 'em out. Actually, I don't like cannellini beans, so always sub with dark red kidney beans, which we like lots better :)

Flag
frankieanne 8 years ago said:

Or you can use white kidney beans if you are set on white. :-)

Flag
NadineM 8 years ago said:

Hi great to see you. That looks goods love your tweaks.

Flag
Stellasmom 8 years ago said:

You can't find cannellini beans you can also use northern beans. I've used both in this recipe. Many times when I'm at the store and I'm shopping by memory I don't alway remember cannellini bean and I'm always looking for the can of white beans, so hence northern beans.

Thanks everyone for wonderful warm welcome.

Flag
Cosmicmother 8 years ago said:

Thanks for the bean info everyone!! :)

Flag