Pasta e Fagioli, which means Pasta and Beans, but we are not putting Pasta or Bean in Ours, Because Paleo

Fellow Cavemen and Cavewomen--A Paleo friendly soup for you--whether you are great at guarding the cave, chasing the woolly mammoth, or both, or neither.  I cannot even build a fire without a match, honestly

2 cups stock, you can use beef or chicken, homemade or store bought--please do not get crazy with your bone broth stories.  Later.  I heard them all, though, I think.  Yawns

A few cups of either homemade marinara or a jarred marinara that contains no sugars of any kind--there are some good jarred brands out there, and they work great for this soup

Handful of basil.  Maybe a little child's handful.

Veggies: I like carrots, onions, zucchini, mushrooms, yellow squash for this one

I like the mushrooms sauteed a bit
I like the zucchini chopped up and added early on, or grilled, same with the yellows

Onions and garlic, sautee together

Add your veggies, not shrooms, to the liquids and let them cook until firm, but done.  Then add shrooms.

If you want to add meat to this soup, ground grass feed beef, browned with various Italian spices, including fennel is primo.  Salt and pepper to taste.  I also add a big glug glug glug of hot sauce--not Tabasco, but you can use Tabasco if you want. I like the not so vinegary ones better

This soup goes great with a salad, and if you are not really worried about Paleo stuff, bread sticks, cheesy garlic bread.

My husband says that women who are married to Italians, but are not Italian women, are called Aunt Marys.  We may call this soup Aunt Mary soup later, even though the Mary makes no sense to me, since I am not a Catholic either.  :)