HAM AND BEANS
I'm enjoying myself this week. (Someone else is cooking for me). I'm teaching in Bible School in Rosarito Mexico. So I'm expecting lots of beans to eat and plenty of rice and tortillas too.
Before I left my home in California I cooked up a pot of Ham and Beans for my husband. This is a recipe his Mom made for him, all throughout his childhood in Illinois.. We had bought a ham on sale right before Easter. I had carved most of it up and frozen it for a later date. But here's what we did with the ham bone, which still had lots of meat on it. I soaked 2 cups of great northern beans overnight in 6 cups of water. Drained the water in the morning and added 6 new cups of water. Added the ham bone, a couple of bay leaves, one onion and simmered it all for an hour and a half. And there you have it. It didn't need any extra salt. Oh so yummy comfort food. I think I'm in that kind of mood with the weird rainy weather we've had.
