Minestrone (Vegetable Soup)

Ingredients for 8 people

• 100 gr. of bacon
• 2-3 pieces of pork rind
• 2 onions
• 120 gr. of leeks
• 100 gr.  of beans
• 100 gr. of string beans
• 100 gr. of carrots
  
• 100 gr. of turnips
• spinach
• savoy cabbage
• zucchini
• celery
• herbs (basil, bay leaf, parsley).

In a big pot, sauté the bacon and the pork rind. Add the vegetables, all well cleaned, washed and cut into cubes. Cook for a couple of hours adding cold water or broth. Before removing from the stove flavour with the ground herbs.