Navy Bean Soup

Soak 1 Cup Dried Navy Beans

This time around, R. and I put the beans to soak in a glass bowl and nuked the thing for a couple minutes until it was around 130 degrees. We then let it sit while we got everything else ready for what we were making (this, and Boston Baked Beans), then proceeded from there. The beans were from this year's crop. This probably would not work if the beans were old.

Cook in a pot on the stove, until the onion is transparent:

4-8 slices bacon, cut or sliced up
2 chopped carrots
4 stalks celery, chopped
1/2 Cup chopped onion

Add:

One Can Beef Broth
2 Cups water
beans
pepper

Simmer until done (about 2 hours).

Don't salt it until you taste it. That's a lot of bacon. Ideally, ham instead of bacon, but we did not have any on hand.

Created January 12, 2008
Updated January 12, 2008