Navy Bean Soup!

Tonight's dinner (Tuesday, October 13, 2009) was inspired by the cooler, damp weather that we've been experiencing over the past couple of weeks. Our weather here in Texas is very unpredictable. I was relived that while today was a little warmer, it was still cloudy and damp making it a good night for soup.

Navy Bean Soup (p. 313) gave me the opportunity to cook with a couple of ingredients that I have never used before. The recipe calls for a ham bone and a bay leaf. To be honest I'm not sure what they added. I know that they're both there for flavor, but I'm not sure how much flavor they actually added.

My mistake with this meal was not making cornbread to go with the soup. The more I think about it the more I think, "duh, you know that when you have bean soup, you've got to have cornbread." Tomorrow I will be baking some goodies for my daughter's youth group and we'll be having leftovers. While I'm baking I think I'll make some cornbread to go with the leftover soup!