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By Jim Hingst

If
you like stuffed green peppers, you will love this soup. This recipe calls for
hot Italian sausage. If you like less spice in your life, choose a milder
sausage. You can customize this soup to suit your taste by adding other
vegetables, such as hot Hungarian peppers, a habanero pepper or roasted
eggplant.

Ingredients

1 pound ground beef

1 pound hot Italian sausage (removed the meat from
casings)

2 medium yellow onions diced

3 chopped green peppers 

2 jalapeno peppers (optional)

½ pound mushrooms

10 oz. package of frozen spinach

4 cloves chopped garlic

½ teaspoon rosemary

½ teaspoon oregano

½ teaspoon thyme

1 teaspoon dried basil

½ teaspoon cumin

1 teaspoon smoked paprika

1 teaspoon turmeric

¼ teaspoon black pepper

1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper

2 15-ounce cans of fire roasted tomatoes

3 Tablespoons tomato paste

2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

8 cups (64 oz.) chicken broth (more if needed)

1 cup uncooked white rice

Salt to taste after testing if needed

Directions

Sauté the chopped onion, green
pepper, jalapeno peppers and mushrooms. You will most likely need to do this in
batches. Sauté the chopped garlic until fragrant.

Brown the sausage and ground
beef. Drain the browned meat.

In a stock pot, add the broth, sauteed
vegetables, browned meat and spices.

Bring to a boil. Reduce to a
simmer and cook for about 45 minutes. Stir occasionally.

Test for flavoring and adjust
seasoning if needed.

Cook the rice separately according to package instructions. Add the cooked rice before serving. Preparing the rice separately allows you to freeze a portion of the soup.

Bon appetite!

About Jim Hingst: Sign business authority on vehicle wraps, vinyl graphics, screen printing, marketing, sales, gold leaf, woodcarving and painting. 

After fourteen years as Business Development Manager at RTape, Jim Hingst retired. He was involved in many facets of the company’s business, including marketing, sales, product development and technical service.

Hingst began his career 42 years ago in the graphic arts field creating and producing advertising and promotional materials for a large test equipment manufacturer.  Working for offset printers, large format screen printers, vinyl film manufacturers, and application tape companies, his experience included estimating, production planning, purchasing and production art, as well as sales and marketing. In his capacity as a salesman, Hingst was recognized with numerous sales achievement awards.

Drawing on his experience in production and as graphics installation subcontractor, Hingst provided the industry with practical advice, publishing more than 190 articles for  publications, such as  Signs Canada, SignCraft,  Signs of the Times, Screen Printing, Sign and Digital Graphics and  Sign Builder Illustrated. He also posted more than 500 stories on his blog (hingstssignpost.blogspot.com). In 2007 Hingst’s book, Vinyl Sign Techniques, was published.  Vinyl Sign Techniques is available at sign supply distributors and at Amazon. 

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