Better Than Olive Garden's Zuppa Toscana

I've no idea how Olive Garden's Zuppa Toscana tastes, but this is really good and easy.

• Made a half recipe. It served 2-3 as a dinner soup, thus 4-6 for a full recipe. The recipe says it serves 12, so they must be doing it as a cuppa-soup thing.
• Used Guilano Hazan's Homemade Sausage from the freezer for the sausage.
• Used 1 strip bacon.
• Had a pot of chicken stock brewing on the stove, so used that instead of "better than bouillon chicken base" (which doesn't really sound like something I'd want to eat).
• Used kale, but I bet spinach would be just as good.