Cabbage and Sausage Soup - March 30, 2012

Minneapolis saw some cooler weather last week (at least cooler than the 70 degree days we'd been enjoying, although still incredibly temperate for March).  It was good soup weather, and hopefully that's the last time I write that this year.  I threw this in the crock pot one morning before work.  Onions, carrots, celery, and shredded cabbage combined with a handful of brown basmati rice, and some leftover beer brats from a previous dinner.  I poured enough water in to cover everything and seasoned with chicken stock concentrate, salt, pepper and some fresh thyme.  This cooked away on low all day and was ready for dinner upon my return home, filling the house with the smell of cooked cabbage.  Perhaps not the best smell in the world, but this soup was delicious.