My wife made Louisiana Black Bean soup over the weekend - OMG, with the lousy cold and snowy weather it was perfect.
It's pretty spicy and she makes it from scratch - soaked the black breans overnight with the hambone from our holiday ham - celery, onion, gr. peppers, spices & heavy on the cayenne...
...and then finished off with broiled slices of kielbasa and fresh scallions...
It was one of a bunch of NOLA recipes we got from the NY Times years ago - and perfect crock pot stuff - that and some fresh corn-bread - again from scratch....baby, baby, baby...
The only downside is that my personal VOC emissions at work were completely off the chart - I think they're gonna have to apply for EPA Superfund money to clean up the chair I was sitting in...
It was
awesome...great cold-weather comfort food and quality personal entertainment for the easily amused -
