The eggy handmade pasta is a delicious finishing touch. Italian minestrone developed as a kind of catchall vegetable soup, meaning there's no one true recipe. But a super-classic minestrone soup ...

so with a few vegetables from the garden, pasta e fagioli (pasta and beans) was born. It’s basically an Italian bean soup ...

For the meatballs, you'll also need ground beef, sweet Italian sausage ... between meat and vegetables. (We're not sure where the pasta comes in, but maybe it represents the soup's offspring?) ...

In a large skillet, cook the Italian sausage and ground beef over medium ... Add the tomatoes, pasta, wine, celery, carrots, mushrooms, garlic, thyme, and oregano to the slow cooker and stir ...

A bowl of Italian ... soup is an offer even most Mafia godfathers probably couldn’t refuse! It is regarded as a ‘big dish’: filling, cheap and prepared with sausage meat and nutritious ...