EASY Beefy Minestrone Soup

We are making beefy minestrroni soup for dinner. I have some bay leaves in here. Just a couple. And some mixed vegetables, some canolini beans, some red kidney beans. The mixed veggies are carrots, corn, green beans, peas. Um, got a can of some tomatoes in here. It’s got some carrots in here. Of course, a pound and a half of our beef from our cow. Uh some V8 juice, crushed tomatoes, a can of tomato paste, a uh I guess I forgot the spices, salt, pepper, um if you run out of oregano like I did, you can substitute for some pizza seasoning. Um, home dehydrated basil. I like a little pepper flake in here. I mentioned the bay leaves. Um, salt, pepper. If it’s too tomatoey, a pinch of sugar. Uh, garlic, onion, um, what else? What else? What else? I think that’s it. Oh, the little uh ABC noodles. Now, this is the perfect soup to add some of our home uh made home dehydrated tomato powder. Roasted tomato powder from the skins that we used off of our tomatoes that we canned for roasted tomato sauce. This will add that punch of roasted tomato flavor without making it watery cuz I like a thick stu soup and this will just thicken up um as those noodles cook up. So now as this comes to it is done and it’s gotten the thumbs up from Mina from Eric who just had a bowl cuz he’s got to go into work. Danny just got home from work. He gave it a thumbs up. So now I’m just going to It’s We like it thicker. We like it more like a stew than a soup. Um but you can thin it out if you want. And uh we’re going to make grilled cheese sandwiches. Oo, grilled cheese with marble rye. But you know what? Bread would be good with this, too. Or bread sticks. Garlic bread you could serve with this. A nice crusty bread roll would be good with this.