A couple days ago Mr X and I made bean soup with ham. It sounds pretty bland, I know, but it's really easy to make and fairly healthy (we only put in a tiny amount of ham - enough for flavor and a couple bits of meat in each bowl) and it provides abundant amounts of fiber. :-) Besides - I think it tastes good. It's a regular dish at our house.
Anyway, this time it was extra special. We used real Black Forest Ham. I bought that ham in Triberg, Germany last march and it's been sitting in our freezer ever since, waiting for it's special day. Lots of special days passed, but we had long since forgotten about the ham. After a foiled attempt to use it on Easter (because I had go into work all day), we finally broke it out on Sunday to enjoy with some extended family. We discovered that the taste was a little too salty and powerful on it's own so Mr X and I made our bean soup with the rest on Tuesday. It was delicious that way. It is kind of fun to use some of the 'souvenirs' from our trips.
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sounds delicious--we actually went to the cannery this week, and boy, are we stocked on beans! i keep telling kevin that should the time come to use it, we'll be having a lot of bean soup. i may need your recipe...
that's so funny you guys are talking about beans... cause i just made the hugest recipe of black beans from cannery beans this week. so good and way, way better than the canned ones. hannah eats them like candy.
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