Ham & Beans soup

[geddylee10002000]

Getting ready to do ham & beans this weekend. Soaking the beans right now. Any fav recipes? I like some meaty hocks, a bit of onion, and cornbread. Would a bit of bacon be the ticket?

 

[pete950]

Pork fat rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Smith357]

Ive always believed that the best bean soups are simple recipes. Bean soup is down home meal not meant to have underlying flavors with hints of this or that. It's just stick to your ribs goodness. For me the key is using a good quality hambone. If you start with a good smokey hambone then bacon should not be needed to give it smoke flavor.

Hambone
onions diced
beans your choice
salt and pepper to taste

 

[bricker]

Are there beans in soup?

 

[WuzzFuzz]

Are there beans in soup?

Well, with ham hocks and bean soup there will be beans......And a lot of methane gas too,..... unless you put about a tea spoon of baking soda in the pot while you're soaking the beans...Otherwise you'll be sleeping alone tonight


WuzzFuzz

 

[Mule Packer]

Well, with ham hocks and bean soup there will be beans......And a lot of methane gas too,..... unless you put about a tea spoon of baking soda in the pot while you're soaking the beans...Otherwise you'll be sleeping alone tonight

...or keepin' the bed warm for your better half.

 

[spricks]

Besides the ham and beans...add a can of stewed tomatoes. You won't be disappointed. We freeze quarts of maters and add our soup. Everyone loves it.
spricks

 

[HERMAN.40]

Ham and beans.. MMMMM A personal favorite. Good comfort food on a cold night.

 

[shouldazagged]

MUST you cruel people torture me with all this food talk?

I never met a bean I didn't like except the red kidney kind. Pintos (which I love to cook with a chuck roast and chilis or just with ham or country bacon), Great Northerns, red beans, blackeyed peas, and on and on. Very fond of lentils, and LOVE the big dried limas we call butter beans in this part of the country. Cook those babies with ham hock, toss in some sliced hot smoked sausage, top it with chopped onion, and serve cold canned tomatoes and cornbread on the side...

Damn, now I have to go eat something.

 

[cussedemgun]

Ive always believed that the best bean soups are simple recipes. Bean soup is down home meal not meant to have underlying flavors with hints of this or that. It's just stick to your ribs goodness. For me the key is using a good quality hambone. If you start with a good smokey hambone then bacon should not be needed to give it smoke flavor.

Hambone
onions diced
beans your choice
salt and pepper to taste

My all-time favorite bean is Anasazi Beans; check out

https://www.anasazibeans.com/beans.html

That's all I can suggest to Smith357's post.

Good beans & rich ham, when you have the ham content right, you will not need any more salt.

 

[fiasconva]

Wow! That brought back some pleasant memories. I haven't had that in years. My dad used to make it and I loved it. I had completely forgotten about that stuff. Comfort food at it's best!

 

[carpriver]

Navy beans, ham hock, big old white onion, covered with chicken broth, served with corn bread or sour dough biscuits and honey and a cup of black coffee. (a little hot sauce on the side) and put out the pilot lights you don't want no open flames.

 

[WuzzFuzz]

Oh NO..!!!!! I forgot to tell ya, you got to have some corn bread to go with those ham hocks and beans.. or have some hush puppies made up before hand to go with...

Woops I see carpriver beat me to...about adding some corn bread



WuzzFuzz.

 

[Tenn2]

My wife makes ham and beans all the tine. It is great. And she does put ham in it.

 

[cussedemgun]

2 qt. water
2 cups beans
2 lb. ham hocks (smoked)
2 or 3 garlic cloves, minced or crushed

No need to soak the beans, just rinse to clean.

dump all together in the crock pot, cover, turn on & leave for work.

At the end of your day, make biscuits (corn bread optional if you're really Southern but most cowboys will insist on biscuits) using 1/2 regular flour & 1/2 corn flour.

OH, - YAH! the beans. The longer they simmer, the better they get

 

[rock doc]

Ham & beans. The best bowel cleanser I ever ate.

 

[BillyMagg]

Getting ready to do ham & beans this weekend. Soaking the beans right now. Any fav recipes? I like some meaty hocks, a bit of onion, and cornbread. Would a bit of bacon be the ticket?

Actually son its PINTO Beans and Ham Hocks, with a slow roasted uncured Ham Roast, allowed to cook down, not dry out, fried potatoes and onions, slaw with Hellmans Mayonaise, now your bacon grease should cover the bottom of a cast iron skillet, with the rest of the grease mixed into your cornbread batter, preheat the skillet till its almost ready to smoke and pour your batter into the hot skillet, bake until the crust is golden to dark brown, your preference, and if you really want to make a meal used buttermilk in the cornbread batter.

Now if this in fact does kill you, you will have had a last meal fit for a real HILLBILLY, if not you may need assistance to move, but ooooh baby, thats good eatin!

White beans are for yankees only, please no embarrasing white beans and sweet cornbread or Miracle Whip stories, please! This is Southern, as in Down Home cooking. Billy Magg

Dog-gon-it I forgot the most important part, it makes for great cornbread in milk before bed! Billy

 

[REM 3200]

Getting ready to do ham & beans this weekend. Soaking the beans right now. Any fav recipes? I like some meaty hocks, a bit of onion, and cornbread. Would a bit of bacon be the ticket?

This is what we had for supper tonight.

 

[redlevel]

Big Lima Beans. Better known as "Belly Busters."

 

[cussedemgun]

bowel cleaner?

Ham & beans. The best bowel cleanser I ever ate.

We're talk'en beans & ham, not beans & prune juice! :O