Recipe - Olive Garden Toscana Soup

1 One half cup Spicy sausage links
(12 links)
Three fourths cup Diced onions
1 One fourth teaspoon Minced garlic
2 tablespoon Chicken base
1 qt Water
2 Medium potatoes, cut in half
Lengthwise then cut into 1/4
Inch slices
2 cup Kale leaves, cut in half,
Then cut or sliced up
1/3 cup Heavy whipping cream

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Place sausage links onto a sheet pan and bake
for 25 minutes, or until done; cut into half lengthwise, then cut at an
angle into One half inch slices.

Place onions and bacon in a large saucepan and cook over medium heat until
onions are almost clear. Add garlic and cook an additional 1 minute.

Add chicken base, water and potatoes, simmer 15 minutes. Add sausage, kale
and cream. Simmer 4 minutes and serve.

Per one cup serving: 265 calories, 17 gm carbohydrate, 10 gm protein, 18 gm
fat, 897 mg. sodium, 51 mg cholesterol and 100 mg calcium.

From Sonia Borges, guest relatins for Olive Garden Italian Restaurant.

Published 3/13/96 in the Minneapolis StarTribune Taste Section.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini