Sausage Tortelini Soup

It’s basketball season in our house…and boy o’ boy do we ever have a crazy schedule. We have our oldest playing for his jr. high basketball team at school (can I just say that practice right after school is heavenly!!  no running him around at night..except for games!), our middle is playing rec basketball and our youngest is playing travel basketball.  This sure makes for some busy nights. Eating dinner as a family is TOP priority in our house, but there are night when it is completely unavoidable. As much as I can, I still try to have a solid, healthy meal for the boys.  They are h-u-n-g-r-y! I often tease my oldest that he thinks about food more than he thinks about girls!! One of my winter “go to” recipes (and it’s a family favorite!) is Sausage Tortellini Soup.  I can typically make this on a whim as I try to always keep the ingredients on hand. This is a pretty quick recipe to whip together– just a little chopping and cooking the sausage, and then everything else just gets “dumped” in the pot! The best part of having soup for a meal (not just this soup, but almost any soup) is that typically all the prep work can be done ahead of time.