This is Mama Miche, and today, in my magic kitchen: Alex Casey's Italian Sausage Soup 

Stick around till the end of the video this time. Big announcement coming! For some people, Fall is pumpkin spice season. While I don't hate pumpkin spice, it's not what I live for when the leaves change color, drop, and crunch as we purposely walk through them. What I love most in the Autumn season is that it's finally sweater weather and soup season! I have so many recipes I love, and this is the newest addition to my repertoire. Thanks to my customer who sent this to me! We love it in Mama Miche's Magic Kitchen! 10 out of 10! You've inspired our next contest! Watch the rest of this video and visit our website for details.

Twenty-one years ago, I went to Memphis for Labor Day weekend to play at a music festival and spend time with the guy I had started dating. His birthday was the following week, so I offered to cook him a homemade birthday meal. I went all out with several courses and outfit changes and was as extra as could be. So extra. I can laugh about it now. I wanted to share the main course recipe with y'all, and it struck me that I should make it for my hubster's birthday and record it for our channel. Twenty-one years ago, I made him this meal in hot pants. Now, I'm more of a yoga pants gal. It's a good thing we had a shared love language… Food!

The ultimate comfort food. It is an entire meal in one tray of yummy goodness. All the food groups are represented and necessary to make one feel fabulously full and satisfied. It’s actually also quite easy to make and assemble. There are shortcuts you can make without skimping on flavor. And there are so many variations in ingredients that you can use. You can substitute traditional lasagna noodles with sliced zucchini, or squash, or any number of traditional noodle substitutions A creamy white vegetable lasagna or a chicken Alfredo lasagna are a couple of different options we can explain another time, in another video, but in this video, the old school lasagna that most of us know and love is the star.

If you have seen my recipe and video for my “Momster’s Classic Marinara Sauce” then you will notice that this recipe is similar, but if you haven’t seen it, fear not because all you need to know to make a delicious and easy meat sauce is right here.

It’s a beautiful thing unto itself and it’s the beginning of so many other recipes to build on. This is not a traditionally Italian approach. It’s traditionally my Jewish Momster’s approach combined with years of making it myself. Having developed the twice stolen spice makes every Italian dish I make even better.