White Navy Bean Soup With Ham Hocks
Ham hocks are available at your butcher. Okay, you might not have one. Do yourself a favor, and get to know one. If that means that you actually have to talk to the guy at the meat counter at the supermarket, so be it. Ask if you can get some hocks in. You would be surprised at the cost of the hocks. They are pure gold, and priced like dirt.
Steps
Pick through beans to make sure there are no stones.
Nothing sucks like breaking your teeth on a stone when it should be a bean !.
Place the beans in the crock pot.
Cover with water.
Set on high cooking and cook for an hour.
Now , some of you will argue that we should or should not season the beans because of the skins.
Well , it is a moot point here as we are adding something salty to it anyway.
Moving right along.
Ham hocks go inches if you cannot find ham hocks , dont worry.
The recipe will be fine.
Just throw in a ham bone.
No ham bone ? youre killing me here ! you could just use a couple slices of ham.
Add your bay leaf to the crock pot.
Dont worry it will float.
No panic.
Really !.
Hack up the onion , a small dice is fine , toss it into te crock pot.
Mince the garlic , again you guesed it into the crockpot.
Are you with me so far ?.
Hack the potatoes into a medium dice , toss them into the crock pot.
You will be needing them to give your soup some body that .
Ingredients
ham hocks, navy beans, water, bay leaf, garlic cloves, onion, russet potatoes, lemon, juice of, kosher salt, fresh ground pepper