15 Bean Soup

It’s delicious but be WARNED! Beans and fart jokes pair together like beans and fart jokes. It’s unavoidable. This isn’t a joke though. Today around 1:30PM I enjoyed two helpings of the soup. Absolutely delicious 15/10 would recommend. Everything was fine for a few hours but once the gas started, there was no end. I was cuddled in bed with my son around 7PM and by the mercy of God he had fallen asleep quickly. Over the next two hours I farted on very reliable 10 minute intervals. Yes, I could smell them. It was vial but the smell dispersed quickly enough. Or so I thought...I was wrong. My god I was wrong. I just grew accustomed to it. It wasn’t gone! It was all around me. I left the room for a few minutes and when I came back I realized I now had both a physical door and a gaseous door in my way. My poor sleeping angel was marinating in the smell. I thought about saving him but it was too gross. Sometimes you have to walk away and wish them luck. It’s probably the hardest part of parenting. So anyway, It’s delicious. Quick, easy, cheap. We will be making this again!

i cook this all the time. This was a great recipe but i suggest that you soak the beans overnight in chicken broth with a package of onion soup mix and two bay leaves. The beans swell and soak up the broth and seasoning. i also suggest that you brown hot italian links removed from casing and add that to the beans the last 30 minutes of cooking. cook them also in chicken broth instead of water.

Excellent recipe. To enhance this recipe I used 2-10oz. diced tomatoes with green chilies in lieu of the tomatoes indicated in the recipe. Add tomatos at the last 15 minutes of cooking time otherwise the acidic nature reduces cooking time and I don't like what it does to the beans. Used more garlic and celery. Used 2 ham bones and 2 smoked ham shanks - the meat was very flavorful. Included a whole peeled potato - halved - during one hour of the cooking time (reduces the flatulence). Toss the potato and DON'T even think about eating it. You could have stomach upset. That's it for the big tips. Hope you find them helpful. Oh and because of the smoked shanks, I didn't even need to add salt - which if you do want to salt it - do at the end.

I love this recipe! However, I would like to point out that it tastes wonderful (and is better for you; no saturated fats) by taking out the meat, and highly recommend it. The flavoring packet is perfectly fine to use and for those of us who are Vegetarians, it is Vegan friendly. It tastes as if you are eating meat...what gives it the best flavor is NOT the meat, but the wonderful vegetables, tomatoes, beans, onions and seasonings. Many of the reviewers are attributing it's wonderful flavor to the meat, but had they tried it without, they would know they're giving credit to the wrong source. For the renaissance festival, I buy a round sourdough bread, take a knife, and cut a circle around the bottom to scoop out the innards and form a bowl, into which the bean soup is poured into. Then I top it off with chives and cheddar cheese. :) My family has asked to eat it again and again, and the leftovers are always gone the next day.

I absolutely loved this recipe. I didn't have any ham hocks, so instead I used some leftover cooked bacon and German sausage from earlier in the week (a small amount of each), a 15 oz can of diced tomatoes, and added a green bell pepper diced (since I was using the Cajun blend, I wanted the Cajun holy trinity of veggies-onion, bell pepper, celery). I also cooked in the crock pot. I put the beans in early in the morning, turned on high for 4 hours, then added all the other ingredients and cooked for an additional 2-3 hours on high. Came out perfect.