Bland bean soup

[cjsmith]

Bean soup: onion, celery, a lot of great northern beans, parsley, *some* kind of meat for flavor.

If the meat used is salt pork, the soup turns out to have absolutely no flavor whatsoever. Seriously, this is the blandest thing I've tasted in a long time.

I'm sure some herbs and spices could save this. Beyond the obvious cracked black pepper, what would you add?

Comments

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

Ah - I'd missed the "done with cooking" part. You're right, then, whole wouldn't work, but I prefer the flavor of whole if you're going to be cooking it a while.

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Ah - I'd missed the "done with cooking" part. You're right, then, whole wouldn't work, but I prefer the flavor of whole if you're going to be cooking it a while.

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Ah - I'd missed the "done with cooking" part. You're right, then, whole wouldn't work, but I prefer the flavor of whole if you're going to be cooking it a while.

And <ljuser="inflectionpoint">'s method sound interesting. I'll have to try that.

Also consider smoked paprika, hot or not to your taste.