Bad Photo, Good Food

Portuguese kale and sausage soup. I used a base of rice cooked with extra water. The result was a marriage of the sausage fat with the rice starch, suspended by the water in a nice, velvety broth. Also threw in some onion, potato, garlic, thyme, paprika, cumin, and a whole scotch bonnet that I removed halfway through. But you could just do sausage, kale and spices and be happy. We had it with a Portuguese red called Berco do Infante, courtesy of a certain mustachioed old landlord.