[Paramecium]

Today we are making old fashioned bean soup. So simple and easy. Earlier this week we had baked ham. Not just any baked ham but real baked ham. Each year when I get a hog butchered I get hams cured and smoked the old fashioned way from the meat locker. So earlier this week I baked a ham and had sweet potatoes out of the garden, ham, and green beans with fresh bread.

The rest of the week we eat ham sandwiches for work and lunch with the left over ham and bread.

So we are left with a rather meaty ham bone.

Throw the ham bone in a large stew pot. Cover with water. Add 1 pound of navy beans. Simmer on med/med high heat for several hours until the beans are soft.

Add a 1/2 cup of chopped celery, a couple of diced carrots, a small to medium onion diced. Salt and pepper to taste. I do use about half regular salt and half seasoned salt.

Now simmer for a few more hours. Then enjoy with fresh baked sweet dinner rolls or breadsticks.

This is a recipe you should start when you get up in the morning and make breakfast so it is done by dinner time. Otherwise it should be made for the following day and refrigerated overnight and reheated the next day.