Summer Minestrone with Sausage Meatballs

Ingredients

• olive oil, divided
• garlic, minced
• sweet onion, diced
• carrots, peeled and diced
• stalk celery, diced
• dried thyme
• chicken stock
• bay leaves
• ditalini pasta
• medium zucchini, halved and sliced
• Juice of a lemon
• chopped fresh parsley leaves
• Goolsby’s Sausage
• Panko bread crumbs
• freshly grated Parmesan
• fresh basil
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste