Grandma's Minestrone

Ingredients

• 8 cups vegetable broth
• 1 cup Italian plum tomatoes (peeled, seeded and diced)
• 1 cup squash (cut into 2-cm cubes)
• 1/2 cup celery (sliced on an angle)
• 3/4 cup rigatoni pasta
• 3/4 cup green peas (frozen)
• 3/4 cup zucchini
• 1/2 cup yellow beans (cut in pieces)
• 1/2 cup white beans (canned)
• 1/2 cup kale (coarsely chopped)
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1 small onion (diced)
• 4 tsp pesto
• 1 carrot (diced)
• 1 potato (cut into 2-cm cubes)
• to taste Parmesan cheese
• to taste salt
• to taste ground black pepper
• 3 sprigs flat parsley
• 1 sprig rosemary
• 1 sprig thyme
• 1 sprig marjoram
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 3 tbsp Parmesan cheese
• 1 bunch fresh basil
• 2 garlic cloves (chopped)