Tuscan Minestrone

This is adapted from Reader's Digest's "Just One Pot" cookbook (2007), p. 22. I made it last week, and Gus loved it! He said it was one of the tastiest things I'd ever cooked.

Ingredients:

• 1t olive oil
• 3 or 4 Jennie-O "Lean sweet Italian turkey sausages", cut into 1/2" slices 
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 4 ribs celery, sliced
• 2 potatoes, peeled and diced
• 2 carrots, sliced
• 1 cup sliced green beans
• 3 leaves fresh sage, coarsely chopped
• 1 T fresh rosemary, finely chopped
• 4-6 cups water (enough to nearly cover the ingredients in the pot)
• 1 cup coarsely chopped kale

Directions:

1. Heat the oil in a large stock pot.
2. Brown the sausage slices. 
3. Add the remaining ingredients except for the kale.
4. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer over low heat for 90 minutes.
5. Add the kale. Cook for 30 minutes more.