Chicken Meatball Soup with Pasta
Here’s a tip for lunch packers. Pour boiling water into a vacuum bottle (Thermos), let warm for 5 minutes while you reheat the soup, then drain and fill with hot soup.
Here’s a tip for lunch packers. Pour boiling water into a vacuum bottle (Thermos), let warm for 5 minutes while you reheat the soup, then drain and fill with hot soup.
This thick, hearty soup is adapted from a recipe by George Cifa of the Stratford Optimist Club in Stratford, Ont. It's featured in the cookbook Simply Soup by the Alzheimer Society of Perth County, Ont., based on the society's annual Soup's On fund-raiser, which attracts huge lunch crowds to enjoy soups made by the city's restaurants and service clubs.
This classic Italian soup is perfectly suited to a slow cooker. If you have a piece of Parmigiano-Reggiano or grana Padano cheese, cut off the rind to add to the soup and infuse it with flavour.
Vegetables that are grilled have a satisfyingly smoky flavour and tender texture. You can also add green beans that you've grilled in a basket for 10 minutes.
If fresh spinach is available at your market, you can use it instead of baby spinach. Make sure to submerge it in cold water several times to remove any grit. There is a variety of colours and shapes of cherry tomatoes from which to choose, such as yellow, orange, heirloom, grape and teardrop.
