Tomato and zucchini soup with sausage meatballs

Cutlets and meatballs

When my children were small we had a heck of a time getting them to eat vegetables. We played little games: "please eat 14 peas", "you must try 2 monster fingers(asparagus)" and "a few of these little trees (broccoli florets) are really good". I resorted to sneaking vegetables into everything I could think of..the most popular being grating onion and zucchini into spaghetti sauce. So this soup is a reflection of those times...you may not see zucchini, but it's there!