White Bean and Homemade Pasta Soup

A few days ago Perry and I woke up from a slumber to snow/rain/ice/wintery mix weather outside and sat our butts down to watch some Top Chef.  Well put that together with a small hangover and you get this weird feeling in you to make something delish.  After thumbing through various cooking magazines dating back from 2003, we landed on a white bean and pasta soup.  This then evolved into "we should probably have something green today" and kale was added.  Then after a quick application of make up we faced the elements to go to the pork store. (I'm not your girl's girl but I won't make a trip to Del Fiore with a bare face- for all my non-local readers, there is a handful of beautiful Italian men that work at this Italian meat market who tend to make you weak at the knees and coax you into buying a couple more links of sausage then you probably need.) We asked them what kind of sausage should we add, only to repeat the last thing they said because I'm so distracted by the sparkling smiles.  Pathetic? Perhaps but the girls around here know what I mean.
After a bit of confusion and a couple cranks at the good 'ol pasta machine, the soup came together.  I must say, I did this without my sister, a culinary student at Johnson and Whales who really knows her shit.  It came out FANTASTIC!  Kate took some pictures, as did I.

Kate enjoying V magazine as Charles waits for food to fall to the floor.

We made our very own Farfalle (bowties).

"Charles I don't know why you want this pasta, the sausage on the butcher block is way better"

Rice ball for Dad.

Bailey accidentally got locked in the garage so mom came to the rescue with celery.

She's sexting.. (i'm kidding)

"I don't like kale, it's bitter".  Oh yea? I slaved all day making this meal, you can go to bed hungry. (He loved it)

Del Fiore Bread. I hope everyone can have a bite of this  before they die.

Perry couldn't sit and eat with us, so here's hers.

  

 

Yes.

  

The kitchen aka magic factory.

 

Mom did the dishes, bitchbag.

  

I had to..