RAINY SUNDAY

I made some really good soup yesterday and for once made the right amount so we won't be eating it for a week. We have a meat market in town that is so good. We never buy at the supermarket anymore. They make their own sausage. You don't have to buy a whole package..you can buy two sausages. You also can just buy 2 or 3 slices of bacon. So thats what I did. I decided to make soup out of two Keilbasa sausages and three slices of bacon. Cut both up and brown it up to get the fat out of the bacon..drain the fat off then add a dash of olive oil and add cut up carrots, onions, garlic..cover with water and simmer it all till carrots are tender. Pour in some broth, I used chicken because thats what I had. Add some thyme, bay leaf, salt,and pepper. I used a can of great northern beans..draining it and mashing half of the beans with a fork to thicken up the soup and cook it all together on low heat for a hour or so. Oh, I also added a couple tablespoons of tomato paste. I used like 3 good sized carrots and 2 onions,diced. It was so good we ate it all. Sarge had some bread with his. I had made a German whole wheat bread the day before and also had some sourdough bread I had made about three days ago. It tastes so good dunked in the soup. I limit myself to one peice of bread a day (if I don't have oatmeal) while on WW but the soup was good by itself. Its probably the best soup I have ever made.