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Hot Italian Stew

I was going to make pasta and sauce, when I noticed that I had put way to many onions in the frying pan to fit tomato sauce on top of that, and my roommate has a sauce-eating disability, so I didn’t want to graduate up to the big frying pan for making sauce, so I decided to make soup or stew.

I ended up with a Minestrone Stew kind of thing (Sorry about the lack of precision):

1 1/2 onions (I used 1 whole brown skinned and 1/2 purple onion)
Olive Oil (add as much or as little as you want, I like lots)
2 cloves garlic, sliced (Could have been more, but that is what broke off on the first try)
3 stalks celery
Dash Oregano
Little less Parsley
Lots of Black Pepper
Dash of Cracked Red Pepper

Fry all this up in a pan, until the onions are translucent and have some brown edges.

Handful of Dry tortellini
2 cups (ish) of water
Salt
Beef Bullion Cube
Lots of Black Pepper

Boil this all together, starting a while after you get the frying pan together. (Stir with the same stirrer)

2 links hot Italian Sausage

Cut into bite-sized slices, then place in the frying pan to brown. (I put them on top of the onions, then kinda pushed the onions out of the way and down into the oil. I think I added some more oil at this point, but I just like (non-virgin) olive-oil)

After the Sausage was browned, I dumped the contents of the frying pan into the boiling pot.

Italian flavored Bread Crumbs
Parmesan Cheese
1/2 cup of Marinara

Add these to the stock to thicken it up… Then add lots of Black Pepper (if you like that kind of thing…)
Then just let it simmer for a while.

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