Sausage Soup

"Millions of wall balls and then we ran!
How can I get excited for Fran?
Split jumps and pistols made my butt sore,
But Paleo-ish recipes shouldn't be a chore!"

Crossfit WODs - it's like you throw all these things together and let them simmer...... and in time your body responds. You get stronger physically AND emotionally.

I feel the same way about good food. I love to throw different things together and let them simmer....and in time the body responds. Your health and your immune system get stronger. 
I see the correlation to programming in my recipes. Take this soup, for instance...

I put these ingredients into a stock pot:

1  28 oz can of organic diced tomatoes
2 cups chicken stock
1/2 of a small yellow onion, diced
8 organic carrots peeled and sliced (please peel your own carrots and stay away from those "baby" carrots that have been sprayed with chlorine)
1/2  small cabbage, chopped
1 package frozen Cascading Farms Organic Blend Vegetables (optional, if you don't want a tiny bit of organic corn....)
8 organic baby red potatoes, quartered 
1 tsp Cherry Wood Smoked Sea Salt (or your favorite)
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp smoked paprika
1/4 tsp chipotle chili powder
freshly ground black pepper

I put the lid on the stock pot and brought it to a boil. Then I turned it down to simmer. 

Meanwhile, I browned 1 lb of off-the-farm sausage in a skillet. I poured off the excess grease and put the crumbled sausage into the soup.
I let the soup simmer until the carrots were soft and the flavors had melded into each other and my offspring were coming into the kitchen saying, "What smells so good?"

Paleo Banger Sausage Soup

If you've been reading this blog a while, you know that we love Banger Sausage from Whole Foods - there's just something about the spices they mix in that is so lovable! Well, I thought I'd pulled out grass fed burger from the freezer, but it was the sausage. (so Jess didn't label them, but she went to get them and split them up and bagged them and put them in the freezer - I'll take it!) Maybe it was meant to be, because I made up this soup.

In a skillet I cooked about 3 lbs of Banger Sausage. (We have the butcher take the casings off, or, if we call ahead, they just don't put it in casings in the first place.)

In a stock pot I put 6 cups of water, 2 small cans of Muir Glen Organic tomato paste, 1 can Muir Glen Organic Diced Tomatoes, 6-8 medium zucchini, sliced, 1 orange sweet pepper, diced, and a head of broccoli. ( If you have other veggies, get creative - it's soup!)

I spiced it up with 2 tsp Smoked Sea Salt, freshly ground pepper, 1/4 tsp rosemary, 1 tsp basil, and 1/2 tsp dill. This needed to cook for around 20 minutes.

As soon as the Banger Sausage was done, I put it into the pot, too. It just tasted so warm and healthy! Ger ate it for breakfast again. What a compliment!

Let me know how it goes.