Ground meat Minestrone Soup

This is a great soup to make when you a bit under the weather or its cold outside.

olive oil
chopped garlic
onion
2 cups celery
2 cups carrots
2 cups water
2 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup red wine
4 cups tomato sauce
1 can kidney beans, drained
1 large can petite diced tomatoes
2 cups baby spinach
oregano
basil
parsley
salt and pepper to your taste
1 to 2 cups mini/small seashell pasta
ground meat of some kind or you can leave the meat out

Cook your pasta first and set aside when cooked.

I cut up my onion, celery and carrots in small pieces.
In a sauté pan I heated up some olive oil and saute my garlic in the oil then added the onions, celery and carrots. I cooked them until they were el dente. Then added my meat, some oregano, basil, parsley, garlic salt, and Johnny's Seasoned Salt. Cook until meat is done.

In a stock pot of large pot for cooking soup in I added the water, broth, one large can tomato paste, one large can petite diced tomatoes, wine, kidney beans, some more oregano, basil and parsley. Put on stove to start warming up.

When your veggie meat mix is cooked set aside. Add your pasta to the soup pot and then add in your veggie meat mix and bring to boil. Add your 2 cups of spinach and mix in. Keep on low until you want to serve it up to eat. Sprinkle some parmesan cheese on top when serving with some toasted rustic baguette bread.

You can also add zucchini or beans to your soup. But really you can add any veggie you want.