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

[wildseakitten.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised salt pork made it bland... probably needed some salt in addition to the salt pork when cooking. I'd try adding a bit of salt now... Try adding chili powder to it, a bit at a time. should dress it up.