Italian Wedding Soup

Ingredients

• recipe of your favorite meatballs from 1 lb lean beef

  made very small
  1 unit
• qts good chicken broth
  4 unit
• med carrots

  scrubbed and chopped
  2 unit
• stalk of celery

  coarsely chopped
  1 large
• onion

  coarsely chopped
  1 large
• garlic

  minced
  2 cloves
• fresh basil

  chopped, or 2 tsp dried
  2 tbsp
• bay leaves
  2 unit
• oregano

  dried
  ½ tsp
• black pepper to taste
  1 unit
• red pepper flakes to taste (optional)
  1 unit
• lemon juice
  1 tsp
• salt to taste
  1 unit
• pkg frozen spinach

  thawed
  10 oz
• orzo

  uncooked, or other tiny pasta
  8 oz