Dining on a dime: spicy vegetable soup

This simple soup is great to warm you up on a cold day, and you can modify the ingredients to include almost any kind of vegetable you may have lying around.

Ingredients:

2 cloves garlic (minced)

1 cup red onion

2 tbs Olive Oil

1 can diced tomatoes

¼ cup chili powder

1 ½ cup pasta

1 cup frozen corn

1/2 can black beans

Directions:

1. Sauté the garlic and onion in the olive oil in a pot until the onion is white and clear

2. Add the chili powder and stir

3. Add the diced tomatoes, a can of water, the frozen corn, and black beans.

4. Add the pasta and boil until the pasta is cooked.

5. Serve.