National Bean Day!

Here is a hearty soup that will be just right for celebrating "National Bean Day"!

Farmer Boy 15 Bean Soup

Ingredients:

• Beans: Pinto, Kidney, Butter, Lima, Great Northern, Cranberry Beans, Pink Beans, Small Red Beans, Black, Garbanzo, Green Split Peas, Yellow Split Peas, Black eyed Peas, Lentils, and whole dried Peas - totaling 2 - 4 Cups
• water
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 Cups of Tomatoes, diced (fresh or canned)
• 1/2 Sweet Green Pepper, diced
• 1 clove of Garlic, minced
• 2 ribs of Celery, diced
• 1 - 3 teaspoons of chili powder
• Salt & Pepper to taste
• 1 teaspoon of Lemon Juice
• splash of hot sauce
• Ham Hocks or Fat Back or Baked Ham, diced

Directions: Throw the beans into a large pot, cover with water & rinse.  After the beans are clean, cover wtih clean water. Bring to a boil.  Cover the pot and let them soak, off the heat, for a least 1 hour.  Then bring them back to a boil and simmer for another hour. 

Prepare the veggies.  After the simmer is completed, add the veggies, the rest of the ingredients, and choice of ham. (You many want to add a ham-based stock along with the meat.)  Cover and simmer for another hour.

 

 

 

Serve hot, with your choice of corn bread, croutons or soda crackers, or other.  Then you can say along with me, "Bean there, done that!"  :)

"It takes judgment to plant seeds at the right time, in the right place, and hard digging to make them grow, whether in the vegetable garden or in the garden of our lives." Laura Ingalls Wilder

I hope you'll try this recipe and then come back to leave a comment. Thanks. The Old Man in the Bib Overalls