Tomorrows cooking project will be Bean Soup!
The beans are soaking overnight, will be drained and rinsed in the morning and then go into the crockpot!
I'll be adding some chopped onions, and a good sized package of ham pieces!
Anybody got any other recommendations?
Add to you recipe:
I green bell pepper
Minced garlic to taste
Use chicken stock instead of water for more flavor
Can of stewed tomatoes
1 pound of your favorite sausage, browned and drained before adding.
Oregano and basil too.
I make 8 qts of soup almost every week. Last week it was chicken noodle, this week it is going to be Olive gardens Pasta Fagioli.
I dont make it but love to eat it when Linda does.
also split pea
Chuck, first pickled eggs and now bean soup, are you looking for a new source of "natural" gas? Roxie's red beet eggs would go great with bean soup and magnify the results.
@Raider Bill, what is this Olive gardens Pasta Fagioli of which you speak?
Chuck, to your recipe I would add finely chopped celery and carrot and a small can of tomato sauce. Git her going and start adding WDH's additions. Danny, I also use chicken stock to replace water, but have never thought of browned sausage. Gosh that sounds good. My favorite soup to add sausage to is potato.
I use a 8qt crock pot
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
2 pound lean ground beef or mild Italian sausage or 1 of both
2 whole carrots, diced
4 celery stalks, diced
1 medium onion, diced
28 ounce can diced tomatoes undrained
3 boxs beef broth
2 whole bay leaves
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried basil
½ teaspoon dried thyme
salt and pepper to taste (I added 1 tsp salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper)
1 can (15 ounces) cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
1 can (15 ounces) red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1 can black beans drained and rinsed
1 cup ditalini pasta, uncooked
brown beef in EVOO
Place the beef in a slow cooker along with the rest of the ingredients except for the beans and pasta.
Cook on low for 7-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours. 30 minutes before serving stir in beans and pasta.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Serve with thick slices of Italian bread slathered with huge amounts of butter!!
X2 on the chicken broth, I just use onions, celery, smoked ham hocks and dry beans. Hope your happy, now I gotta make a batch! musteat_1
Had some once that had a bunch of bacon already fried and tore in small pieces, canned tomatoes and don't know what else but it was good. Speaking of beans anyone ever tried the 15 bean mix you see in grocery stores with the dried beans?
I use the 15 bean mix a lot.
I really wish all you folks that know how to cook would stay off this forum it always leaves me hungry! :) That being said I'm glad you brought this up Chuck (no, no pun intended) I love bean soup now I have to try all the ways. I always use ham but a lot of everything here sounds great.
Thanks for all the input!
Thanks for the recipe Raider Bill! 8) I'll be trying that soon.
It will make you squeel with DELIGHT! :D :D :D
A side of NY sharp cheese would also make you squirm along with the gaseous expulsions
Darn bill do you do anything but cook in the winter down there?
You can also add smoked link sausage cut into thin round slices. I also like to use the 15 dry bean mix that you can get in the bag at the grocery store to make my bean soup.
Oh, and I love that split pea with ham soup too. GOT to have cornbread with both soups ;D. One good way to serve the soup is to put the cornbread in the bowl and ladle the soup over the top digin1 food1.
Danny x2 on the corn bread.
Quote from: petefrom bearswamp on January 24, 2018, 06:15:39 PM
A side of NY sharp cheese would also make you squirm along with the gaseous expulsions
Darn bill do you do anything but cook in the winter down there?
We pretty much cook and ride motorcycles all winter.
Quote from: Raider Bill on January 25, 2018, 08:06:10 AM
Quote from: petefrom bearswamp on January 24, 2018, 06:15:39 PM
A side of NY sharp cheese would also make you squirm along with the gaseous expulsions
Darn bill do you do anything but cook in the winter down there?
We pretty much cook and ride motorcycles all winter.
Pansies, go buy a horse, I got one or two that will give you a ride :D ;)
Quote from: sandhills on January 25, 2018, 11:20:08 AM
Quote from: Raider Bill on January 25, 2018, 08:06:10 AM
Quote from: petefrom bearswamp on January 24, 2018, 06:15:39 PM
A side of NY sharp cheese would also make you squirm along with the gaseous expulsions
Darn bill do you do anything but cook in the winter down there?
We pretty much cook and ride motorcycles all winter.
Pansies, go buy a horse, I got one or two that will give you a ride :D ;)
I got thrown off a horse in front of Woolworths when I was kid. That cured me.
Did you ask for your quarter back?
:D :D :D :D :D Sorry RB, don't worry I can take just as easy as I can dish it out ;D
On a Iron Horse I ride
I'm wanted, dead or alive.
bike_rider
smiley_thumbsup
Actually many years ago in another life I owed 2 horses. My first ex thought it would be cool.
I found owning horses in my case was worse than owning a boat. At least with a boat I could park the DanG thing and forget about it. Them horses wanted to be fed and stuff.
I did enjoy trail riding but not enough to keep them. Traded one for a snowmobile and a shotgun the other I sold to another idiot like me. ;)
Now I like my saddles to be over a V-Twin.
My Dad always said "A horse can eat a bale of hay and deposit two bales worth in the gutter"!
Just found a package of ham chunks in the freezer, I see a soup either bean or split pea in our future very soon, with corn bread of course!
I didn't see anyone mention bacon fat! I add alot of bacon fat to my bean soup and it's delicious!
The other secret ingredient is Smokywood Pastures summer sausage, diced. It has just the right combination of spices and salt 8)
John
Quote from: John357 on April 17, 2019, 08:32:56 AM
I didn't see anyone mention bacon fat! I add alot of bacon fat to my bean soup and it's delicious!
The other secret ingredient is Smokywood Pastures summer sausage, diced. It has just the right combination of spices and salt 8)
John
That's true. We have a couple hogs butchered each year and I always have some fat but away for beans and soups.
Beans, Beans, the musical fruit! The more you eat the more you toot! The more you toot, the better you feel. So let's have beans for every meal!
Yes, we also use the 15 Bean Mix, and it is heavenly with cornbread! We buy those cheap spiral sliced Hams (which go for ~$0.88/ lb this time of year), and save the Bone (with all that good stuff that wasn't sliced) and throw that into the pot. We just did that a couple weeks ago..... Nom, Nom, Nom!
I've been wrecked riding bikes, and I've been wrecked riding horses. The wrecks on horses were more memorable, mainly because there were a lot more of them, and the results were more "memorable".......
very appropriate thread.
As I read this I am eating the bean soup I made in mid March.
Linda had better watch out in bed tonight
Not a sexual thing at all but combustible anal gasses.
But I am not a cover flapper
Better not go to North Dakota there may be some frackers interested in that natural gas :D Randy