Meanwhile in a large pot sauté the onion, celery, carrots, and sweet potato in the butter.
Add the broth, rice, thyme, parsley, salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
Once the veggies are mostly soft add the browned sausage and let it simmer for a couple minutes.
Serve with cornbread.
Notes
Adding some chopped kale right at the end with the sausage would be delicious twist.To Serve in a Pumpkin: Wash a large pumpkin, cut the top off, and clean the inside out. Drizzle the inside of the pumpkin with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Place on a pan and bake in 350 degree oven for one hour or until soft where you can poke it with a fork but not too soft that it’s falling apart. Meanwhile make your soup. Once the pumpkin is cooked, ladle the soup into the pumpkin and serve, scraping off bits of pumpkin on the inside of the pumpkin to add to the soup. So yummy and the perfect warm and cozy meal!