Cannellini Bean Soup Recipe with Roasted Italian Sausage and Escarole

Bean Soup with Italian Sausage and EscaroleWhy oh why did it take me so long to try escarole? Back in Feburary of 2007 I wrote about escarole for BlogHer and brought some home, with good intentions of using it in a soup like this. I'm not sure why, but I never managed to cook that escarole, and it's taken me all this while to buy it again. This is the soup I planned to make nearly a year ago, one of those classic soups of beans, sausage, and escarole, and what a great combination! It only took one spoonful for me to realize I absolutely adore escarole, with its unique flavor that's subtly different from any other green I've tried.

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