"This one also uses Italian sausage so it has some more spice to it.  The great thing is, you don’t have to brown this sausage ahead of time.  You use sausage link and cut into pieces.  Then you add it to the soup raw.  In the end you have these nice meatball-like pieces of sausage throughout the soup.

"The slow cooking process along with the sausage give this soup a really rich and deep flavor.  To finish it off, you place it in oven safe bowls.  Then add a spoonful of ricotta along with some mozzarella and broil the bowls until the cheese is nice and melty.  If you don’t have oven safe bowls you can skip the broiler.  The cheese will still melt from the heat of the soup."