Ham and bean soup

fantomlord

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it's starting to feel like fall around here, so it's about time to start making some soups and stews...
I cured some country style ribs with tenderquick, some freshly ground cloves, allspice, paprika and black pepper for about 4 hours, rinsed them, and left them in the fridge overnight. Meanwhile, I soaked about 2 lbs of beans.
Got my DO hot, and started with some bacon grease, then leaks, garlic, carrots, bell pepper, and sweated all that for a little while. Then, in went the beans, a couple bay leaves, some salt, white pepper, and enough home made chicken stock to cover.
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Then, the DO went on the lower rack of the WSM with the meat above over RO lump with some cherry, and a handful of hickory chips
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let that go for a few hours
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then chopped up the meat, and into the pool along with the bones
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Let it go for a few more hours until the beans were tender
all that was left after that was to convince my helper to come back in...he was enjoying the weather a little
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looked a bit like this when it was done...
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served it up with some nice crusty bread, and it was a great meal :biggrin1:
 
Yum Matt! I bet the cured pork added a lot of flavor to the beans. :cool: Looks fantastic!!
 
The soup looks fantastic! I think your helper may have been hitting the Jack a little too hard. :becky:
 
Yum Matt! I bet the cured pork added a lot of flavor to the beans. :cool: Looks fantastic!!
Thanks Jeanie! the pork was really good...the hard part was getting any of it into the pot before we ate it :oops:

The soup looks fantastic! I think your helper may have been hitting the Jack a little too hard. :becky:
Thanks Ron! He's more of a beer drinker...and a mushroom hound :mmph: he just likes to sun himself :rolleyes:

I'll do ham and bean soup in the middle of Texas summer. Yours looks killer.

Thanks billy! It came out really good--especially for the really small amount of work it took :cool:
 
I grew up eating a ham and bean soup very similar to yours. It's what my family did with the leftovers from a big Christmas ham -- bone and all. I like the way you made yours. I'm sure it had lots of hammy flavor to it.

CD
 
it's starting to feel like fall around here
Damn sure is. Sat at a football game tonight and it was pretty cool. Frost on the car this morning.

Nice looking meal Matt. Love bean soup this time of year. Well done!

Working on a pot of beef stew myself right now.
 
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