"Hearty Soup" - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 small can tomato sauce
1 can chicken broth
2 cans red or white beans
3/4 tsp. garlic
olive oil
1 bunch escarole
1/2 lb. chourico, a ham bone or pepperoni
2 celery stalks
2 to 3 bay leaves
sliced carrots (optional)
rice or orso macaroni
dry red pepper flakes

Preparation

Saute garlic with chourico in enough olive oil to cover bottom of
pan.
Quart
pan is good.
Add broth, 1 can water, celery, carrots, beans, bay leaves and tomato sauce.
Cook for 20 minutes. Add
cut
up escarole, salt, pepper and a few dry red pepper flakes.
Add cooked rice or orso.