Red beans with ham

My house smells so heavenly right now. The soup is in the final meld stage of cooking. This is an easy workday soup. Put the beans on when you wake up, turn them down when you leave for work, and add the veggies when you get home.

Delicious with porkchops! :positive

#GlobalApron 2024 week 12. Ingredient green beans. I freeze leftover holiday ham bone leaving some ham on it to use when I make this.

Quick easy dinner.

Grew up with beans. Always a crowd pleaser.

Comfort! Especially when you don't want to be let down!

This is a go to soup (meal) when I have leftover ham from a holiday meal. The smoked ham hock adds a great flavor. For a traditional Cuban meal, omit the meat and dairy, and serve with white rice. To “Mexican-ize” the dish, add some “heat” (jalapeno or hot sauce) within the cooking process and garnish with cilantro, salsa, etc.

A one pound bag of dried beans is too much for just the two of us so I break them in half and make two different things out of them. The first go-round which was the first time I tried making dried beans in my instant pot, was red beans and rice. Don't look, you won't find it here because even though it tasted exceptionally good there were quite a few fails during the process. So I modified the recipe and here is the new one, but we're eating this with bread instead of rice because my wife wanted to, so it has a thinner broth. So give this a try and I'm pretty sure you will enjoy it. If you use a different type of bean, most likely you will need to adjust the cooking time. These small red beans take a lot longer to cook then some other types of dried beans.

Tasty for blended/pureed for stage after gastric surgery - not a lot of protein.

A sweet start with a bite at the end. You will never eat regular ham and bean soup again!

Not sure if this is a Pennsylvania Dutch thing or not, but we make this all the time as a way to use up the fresh green beans.

This was an accidental recipe that I have made now several times and each time I find it amazing! I prefer my red beans spicy and use more Cajun spice than some care for. Season it according to taste and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Ham & Bean Soup. (I need better lighting hahah)

Lima beans (butter beans) are a delicious and healthy way to get protein and fiber in one dish. Adding greens makes it even better! Instead of soaking the beans overnight I prefer the 1-hour "quick soak" method. The prep work can be done easily at the same time.

Note: this is what happens when there’s not many “rice” eaters in the fam. Most of the beans and sausage is eaten and mostly bean juice and rice is left over. That’s when the juice and rice is mixed together for another dish. #GlobalApron 2024

This is a delicious dish that I grew up with as a good side to almost anything that you wish to eat. I hope you enjoy, if you try these out.

This taste great with my Corn Mocque Choux recipe.

If you can't find pickled ham you can leave it out and use better than bouillon ham base

This is a family recipe that’s been around for a while. I think it originated with my great uncle in Louisiana sometime around the 1950s.

This isn't the most traditional way of making ham and bean soup but still has amazing flavor. I didn't use ham hock, ham shank or bacon which seems to be common. We used a homemade ham stock that we had in the freezer made from the bone of a spiral ham. For the ham chunks I used a combination of leftover ham from a holiday meal and the last bit of the ham I smoked this past summer. If you don't have smoked ham or double smoked in my case you can use a smoked turkey leg and let it simmer in the pot. Or even a drop or two of liquid smoke just to give the extra depth of flavor. Also used the dehydrated onion in place of fresh chopped because it seemed like it would just get lost in there. The only thing I might do differently next time is add spinach or another green to the party.

A little Cajun tonight...

#porotosconriendasThis is a traditional soup very popular in Chile. This soup is made with beans and spaghettis or beans with long pork skin threads that resembles the horse reins. Is very popular to serve it with longanizas (sausages), chorizos or chicharrones (fried pork skin). In this case I made it with hickory smoked ham left over from New Year’s celebration.https://youtu.be/FikFS6DAPBc

easy to make veggie steaks

I was craving white beans and ham and came across this easy recipe online. It calls for 6 cups of water but the first time I made it I used a box of vegetable stock with two cups of water. This 2nd time, I used low sodium chicken broth and two cups of water.

I love my winter recipes, and this one especially. Just the right amount of heat to take the chill off.

To make a chili version just use red, green an yellow bell as well as a med poblano