CROCK POT HAM AND VEGETABLE SOUP
Saturday, February 9
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Sensing for a jar pot soup that console tastes gastronome? This ham and vegetative soup is an easy and flavorsome dinner for any night of the period.
Preparation for honourable The Partner and I does possess its advantages: the cheaper marketplace bills, little kitchen lucre, and I get to be all romantic with those perfect "dinner for two" recipes. Reliable, we may eat our dinner while move on the lounge, watching TV (all of which we're both totally alright with doing), but in the rearwards of my remember I full alert of meet how stinking cute our party plates see.

But as for the disadvantages of exclusive preparation for two? Several of the soul recipes out there are made to regale cardinal to six, and it's not ever the easiest duty to reach the recipes perfect (because, math). Quite oft I'll exclusive ready the full-serving recipes when I cognise the leftovers give be clean ? which virtuous happens to be exactly how this crock pot soup ended up on our dinner listing.
Now, the first location around this direction wasn't plane the fact that it upturned out impressive the day I prefabricated it ? because it totally did, if I do say so myself; treat and sentimental ham, flavourful veggies and beans? Oh yes ? but actually the optimal start nigh this direction actually was the leftovers. And it wasn't flatbottomed me that got to eat them.

INGREDIENTS:
- 12 cup water divided
- 8 oz great northern beans rinsed and drained
- 1 lb smoked ham already cooked
- 1 cup celery chopped
- 1 cup carrots chopped
- 4 tbsp oregano fresh and chopped
- 1/2 tsp black pepper or to taste
- 8 oz green beans cut (fresh or frozen)
- 2 tsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 tsp salt
INSTRUCTIONS:
- In a whopping stockpot over medium-high warmth, add 6 cups of irrigate and the large boreal beans. Channelize to a furuncle and let ready for 10 transactions. Shift pot from turn, treat, and let beans sit for 1 minute. When willing, feed and removal beans, then set nearby.
- In a 5 1/2 quart (or large) jar pot, add preserved ham (intact), herb, carrots, black flavourer, and embattled great septrional beans. Pour in the remaining 6 cups of irrigate on top and wet with herb. Dress and make on intoxicated for 5 hours (or 10 hours on low).
- Add conservationist beans to jar pot and ready on shrilling for added 25 transactions.
- Withdraw ham from jar pot and cut into bite-sized pieces. Refer cut ham to jar pot and shift in balsamic acetum and saline.
- Supply soup straightaway.