Sunday Dinner: Italian Wedding Soup

My, my, what a busy month it's been. I have been cooking and baking a wee bit here and there but much of my time has been spent at the brewery, bartending, and as of January, tackling my new role as Taproom Manager & Assistant to the Ambassador. Plus this, that and the other fun thing I'm usually up to.

Today just felt like a day to cook (albeit after I lounged around, visited a potential rental place, watched football and ran errands). I caught some of the Martha Stewart Show the other morning--thankfully, it was an episode focused on healthy recipes. Italian wedding soup is a more recent favorite of mine, so I decided today to take on that recipe from said episode. The one big, slightly unhealthy change I had to make was to add pasta. It's essential, right? I also switched out the escarole for spinach for two reasons: it's cheaper and it's brighter (we with the eyes first!).

So here we have my riff on light Italian wedding soup. And I'm going to be honest with you--as much as I love baking and consider it my "home" in the kitchen... this was supremely easy and yielded great results. I really look forward to integrating more home cooking into my routine.