Ham and Bean Soup variations!

[coloradoclyde]

Are they vegetarian lentil burgers?

 

[George]

Yes, vegetarian.

Oh, the horror, the horror. :wink:

Spence

 

[coloradoclyde]

Recipe?......A well fed man fears no vegetables....

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Was gonna make ham and bean soup today. But while at the market I got a deal on a pound of blue crab meat, so it was colonial style crab soup instead.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

I prefer 'yellow eye' which actually is a pea.
darn price of them these days :shocked2:
some veggies added in and a dash of 'liquid smoke' and a dash of dried hot pepper. meaty ham bone of course.
couple bowls of that and a large chunk of cornbread down the hatch and that begins to swell up in there - man oh man. :stir:

 

[tenngun]

I got a dry smoke ham from burgers hams and cooked it for New Years,just made som green pea soup with the bone.ummm. Never developed a taste for lent led or black eyed peas,but bones do make good legumes

 

[Loyalist Dave]

teaspoon of cinnammon

Really Tenngun?

Huh...., I've never thought of that, but then again I've been astounded by those who put dark, cooking chocolate in chili.

:hmm:

I shall have to try this and see. :grin:

Thanks

LD

 

[Vaino]

To me the best part of a ham is the bone....and I like good American ham.

The ham bone is used to flavor either a split pea or a bean soup. One of my biggest disappointments was buying some smoked pork hocks at the super market....no way near the bean soup using a ham bone.

Lately I only make bean soup and use a ham bone plus some left over ham....the beans are a pkg of 15 different kinds plus some grated carrots, garlic and one small potato to thicken. Not any addt'l salt but am generous w/ the pepper.

The point of my post is the ham bone.....what else can season a bean soup so superbly?.....Fred

 

[Black Hand]

I rarely have the opportunity to eat a ham, so my go-to flavorings for beans/legumes are bacon, sausage or ham-hocks. Of the 3, I think the hocks do the best job because of the combination of meat, fat and collagen/gelatin in addition to the skin holding considerable smoke flavor. But you need a good meaty & smoky hock to do the job properly and it needs to be cooked long and slow for optimal flavoring to develop...

 

[coloradoclyde]

I wonder what people did if they didn't have any meat to make their soup?

I grow my own beans....Anybody else?

 

[Black Hand]

I wonder what people did if they didn't have any meat to make their soup?

They made vegetable soup...

I am a firm believer that vegetarian food is fantastic when served with a proper side-dish of meat.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Vegetable soup with beans? :hmm: ....Isn't that called Minestrone?..
What if it's mostly beans?

 

[Black Hand]

What if it's mostly beans?

I'd call it boring and gas-inducing.
Beans need something added to interest the palate - face it, beans aren't known for their exciting flavor, however they are nutritious

 

[coloradoclyde]

Beans need something added to interest the palate

Umm!.....That's the soup part.... :haha:

 

[coloradoclyde]

What about Bean with bacon soup?

 

[coloradoclyde]

This looks yummy.... :grin:
https://recipes.heart.org/recipes/1087/three-sisters-soup

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Vegetable soup with beans? ....Isn't that called Minestrone?..
What if it's mostly beans?

Depending on the spices used, you may have Chili..., where Chili is made of beans, when meat is added it's Chili Con Carne (with meat).

LD

 

[coloradoclyde]

Vegetable soup with beans? ....Isn't that called Minestrone?..
What if it's mostly beans?

Depending on the spices used, you may have Chili..., where Chili is made of beans, when meat is added it's Chili Con Carne (with meat).

LD

You know if you start talking about putting beans in chili you're going to rile a Texan..... :haha:

Also, ....I don't consider chili to be soup.

 

[Kansas Jake]

Along with Fred, I too really like a ham bone to flavor bean soup. I have also used sliced and fried spicy sausage such as a kielbasa to make a bean soup. I brown it in the pan or dutch oven before adding the other ingredients. Along with the usual spices and veggies including some sliced or grated carrots, I like to add a regular can of diced tomatoes.

 

[coloradoclyde]

One cold winter day, I was bored....
So I set out to clone Campbell's bean with bacon soup, just by reading the ingredients on the back of the can.
I came really close...The wife loved it.

Then I went online and found a clone recipe....It was almost my exact recipe...

I had fun cooking though.... :grin: