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Jan 1, 2011 The best bean soup in the world
I am a particular fan of well made bean soup and have crock-potted no small amount of it in my life. With “she who must be obeyed” down with a cold, I took the cooking upon myself as of last night. I dropped 1lb of Navy beans in a pot and filled it with cold water, adding some salt last night.
After allowing them to soak overnight, I rinsed and put them in the crock pot to cook this morning, adding a tablespoon of salt and 1/8th stick of butter. About noon I added a package of those little sausages from Wal-Mart for flavor and cut up a few stalks of celery. I then put the lid on to allow it cook for a couple more hours.
At this point I take a teaspoonful out to taste and add herbs, or whatever sounds like a good idea at the time. Something required my attention for a moment causing me to set the tasting spoon down on a plate where I had deposited the zest of a grapefruit a few minutes before. (Yes, we have a tree of them in our back yard).
When I tasted the beans, they were explosive. Once I figured out that the only extra seasoning this soup would need was more grapefruit zest, I ran to the back yard and got three of them.
This is, without question, the best bean soup I have ever eaten and family members are now fighting over the last bits of it. If you’ve ever made beans in a crock pot, this is a recepie you simply must try.