My Favorite Navy Bean Soup
By: Christine
Published: Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 4:59am

Ingredients




1 pound dried navy beans
1 meaty ham bone
3 cups chopped celery
3 cups shredded (grated) carrots
1 inch onion chopped (or shredded with carrot  food processor)
1 tablespoon dried parsley
2 cloves minced garlic
1/4 teaspoon tobasco sauce (I use cayenne pepper if I am out of tobas
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Preparation

1 Sort and wash beans - 2 Add 6 cups water and soak beans overnight or 8 hours (I always forget to do this before I go to bed so I ended up simmering the beans per package instructions, takes about 2 - 2 1/2 hours) 3 Drain beans, add ham bone and cover with water 4 Cover, bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer 1 hour 5 Add remaining ingredients, simmer 1 hour until beans are tender 6 Remove bone 7 Chop ham and return meat to soup

About


You know that meaty ham bone you have in your freezer?  The one left over from your Easter Ham back in April?  Yeah, that one .... well, it has been 6 months and is now time to use that ham bone!!  Time to make some Navy Bean Soup!
Fall is such soup weather!  My Mom would make this wonderful Navy Bean Soup with the ham bone!  So simple and so Yummy!
I serve this with a good beer bread .. super easy, heavy bread that only takes 1 hour and no yeast!