At my mom's request I made Northern Bean Soup and Cornbread for dinner tonight...a first for cooking beans for this girl. I have made a lot of cornbread in my life but I don't really remember making it from scratch...both were delish-ous! I brought two cups of beans to a boil after rinsing and making sure there weren't any bad beans in the bunch. Let them sit for two hours and then rinsed them and brought them to a boil under 2" of cold water to begin. After they had simmered for a half hour I added 2 cloves of garlic, 1 walla walla sweet onion, 3 carrots finely sliced, 2 bay leaves, 4 chicken bouillon cubes, a piece of random pork I found in the freezer some parsley and a buttload of pepper (oops) simmered for about 45 more minutes and soup and cornbread filled the house with a savory smell. It was fairly easy and probably pretty cheap if I were to do a cost analysis!
So, the Northern Bean soup wouldv'e made my Southern Fried Grandparents proud (my mom's words)!
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