MINESTRONE SOUP from Bellyful

This comes from Bellyful. It's a good, basic recipe but has too much pasta in it. I left out the bay leaf, tomato paste and zucchini. I used pureed fire roasted tomatoes, 3/4 c., in place of diced tomatoes. I used frozen drained spinach in place of kale. I used chicken broth and water in place of vegetable broth. I only needed 1/4 t. of table salt and I used close to 1/4 t. red pepper flakes in place of black pepper.

I give this 4 stars.