Husband Soup

I took some liberties since I was using the stove top and had rice to use up. Used 1 roll of Jimmy Dean hot sausage and jasmine rice. Cooked up the sausage, then onion for 3 min, then garlic for a min the carrots for 3 min before adding the broth and other recipe items. cooked the rice separately. Added 1/8 teaspoon of crushed red pepper and an entire bag of cut up baby carrots. Very good. There is something slightly off from a texture standpoint and I think it is the evaporated milk (I don't usually use that and would prefer to try heavy cream next time). But it was nice before I added it as well, so it could simply be eliminated to save on calories.