Pasta e Ceci

Our family does not ski, or ice skate, or bounce down hills on sleds, but we welcome winter because it is such a good time to make soup. Soup is no reason to give up pasta, however. Many shapes are made specifically for soup. The tiny, pretty ones shaped like stars, or little animals, or imitating rice, or the spindly noodles called angel hair are excellent with broth—a homemade meat broth, that is, extracted from beef, veal, and chicken simmered slowly with a few vegetables and a tomato or