Ham & Bean Soup for Sat. Blog Showcase

Dear blogging friends, it is such a difficult time of tragedy
with so many experiencing the
devastating earthquake in Haiti.
I am finding it difficult to blog about frivolous things,

with all the terrible suffering going on.
We are praying with every newscast!

We have had only one message from our friends
who were there doing missionary work.
I'm sure, since he's a cardiologist & she is an RN,
that they are staying to help in whatever way they can.

None the less, I wanted to participate in Lori & Ann's
Saturday Blog Showcase
so here is my entry into the event.

Today the Saturday Blog Showcase is being hosted
at Lori's beautiful site
All That Splatters.

She & Ann, from Thibault's Table
are taking turns hosting this fun event
where you make a recipe that
you've found on another person's blog,
giving them credit & a link to their site.

The idea is to try a new recipe each week,
one that another blogger has shared on his or her blog.
Prepare the recipe any time during the week and
then link your post on Saturday to the Blog Showcase.

I've made Cathy's delicious white bean with ham soup,
featured on her blog Wives with Knives.

Her recipe can be found by following the link above to her site,
She has copyright rules posted on her site,
so I will not place her recipe here.

I had frozen the leftover bone-in ham
from our Christmas feast,
so that was my start.
I followed her recipe as written &
after simmering the meat for several hours,
I removed it & the bones.

I then added the beans & other ingredients to cook
while the meat cooled enough to remove all the bits & pieces from the bone.
I used my hand held blender to puree the beans before
adding the ham back to the pot.
Some people around here profess to dislike beans....
what they can't see won't hurt them, right?

It was DELICIOUS & really hit the spot
on a cold, snowy Ohio day.

I must say, though, my addition of the croutons
to the top was NOT a good idea.
I was trying to make it look pretty for the picture.
They got soggy very quickly...yucko.
Won't do that again!

I will be making this recipe again, though!





Thank you for stopping by....have a good weekend!