looking for a good ham and bean recipe

[momof2boys1girl]

I saved our ham bone and some chunks of ham from easter dinner and am need of a good recipe for ham and beans please

[Sandi]

My grandma always did navy beans. Just pre-soak them (I do a quick soak - bring them up to a boil, cover, remove from heat, rinse after an hour). Then you can do the rest in the crock pot - you can either use vegetable stock or water - and maybe add a couple bay leaves to the pot, the ham bone, and enough water or stock to cover. You can add chopped onion, celery, and carrot, too, if you want.

Then, cook it and cook it and cook it - my beans take several hours. I almost always do them in the crock pot. I like them sort of creamy and with less liquid, so I will sometimes take the lid off and let it evaporate for a bit. Remove the bay leaf and the bone(s). Then you can chop up any diced ham you have left, but really, if there is any on the bone it will come off and mix into the beans pretty much on its own. You can always encourage it a bit with a spoon or a fork, though. Then add it back in.

I'd probably use the chopped ham for another recipe - maybe quiche or chopped up in scrambled eggs.

[waterlily]

I am making a tuscan bean soup tonight with the bone and some ham chunks. It has chopped tomato, onion, white beans, broth and some kind of green (spinach, chard)

[momof2boys1girl]

emmm both sound good. Thank you!