My wife and I are recently retired and share cooking responsibilities. She cooks more elaborate meals while I prefer more simple one-pan meals. This recipe caught my attention for a simple ham and bean soup - and is what I call a "label recipe" - i.e., a manufacturers recipe to promote and sell a product. There's several of these I've made and enjoyed over the years; Swanson's chicken stock has a wonderful and simple chicken noodle soup recipe, Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup makes a tasty chicken and rice, etc. I'd never heard of Idahoan Roasted Garlic flavored mashed potatoes, but was easy enough to find at the grocery store for under a buck. The recipe was followed save for 2 substitutions; chicken stock was used instead of vegetable stock, mostly because I hate vegetable stock and it's not easy to find - which I take to mean everyone else hates it too. The other substitution was fresh parsley - we grow our own and dry it for winter use. So to reconstitute the dried parsley, I added it to the stock before adding the potato mixture. We really enjoyed the soup, together with some City Sour Sourdough bread (made in Portland, OR). There was no need for extra salt with the potato mixture. All it needed was a little pepper. In the end, my wife who is a former foods teacher said what she always says when I come up with a winner "I'd let you make that for me again". To which I replied "I'd let you wash the dishes" - which always provokes her to laugh that laugh that says "d
Made this in my Dutch oven and wow turned out great. finished in the bowl with a little parmesan cheese and a bit of Frank's hot sauce. Next time gonna add some peppered bacon!
This was very good. Husband didn't want beans and I didn't want carrots so corn came in to make up the difference. I also used just regular instant potatoes and it was still yummy.
this is hard to rate. I chose it for a base and it truly was a good one. I'm sure it would be good as is however I like to customize. I used extra beans mashed them and used for thickener. I added a bay leaf minced garlic and diced potato. It was great for us. thanks for helping me get started!
Very good. Easy to make. I was craving this and didn't want to let the soup simmer for the 1 hour but I did and it was the perfect time to let the meat really just fall off the bone. Did not need any salt due to the ham. One of the best ham and bean soups I've ever had. Thanks
Made as directed in the recipe. Really good. Will keep this one for more batches to use the ham bone leftover from holidays!
It s a bit chilly here in Central Florida so I thought it was time (actually it was the wife s idea) to make this wonderful soup once again. We had a small ham bone in the freezer that we picked up from the Honeybaked Ham store a while back just for such an occasion and it all came out great. We had the neighbors over yesterday for dinner and it was a big hit.
Love this! Perfect for cold rainy days in Normandy
After reading the reviews I was suprised at how bad this soup actually was. The texture thickness and especially the taste was terrible.
