On the other end of the cooking spectrum is the "I haven't gone shopping, and I need to cook something." This is how I came up with the soup in the pic below. My wonderful neighbor showed up at my doorstep with a bunch of "extras."
I must say, her timing was perfect!! One of the things she gave me was a dried bag of beans. I was thinking "I wonder what I can do with these?" I wound up making something else for dinner that night and soaked the beans over night.
The next day I drained them, rinsed them and added them to a pot of 4 cups of chicken broth. I then added 1 packet of Knorr's Homestyle chicken stock, 1 smoked turkey wing (which I happened to have in the freezer), and a little bit of water.
I added chopped white onion, sauteed fresh garlic, some Slap Yo Mamma seasoning, a little Kosher salt, and some fresh ground pepper. I brought the soup to a boil, then reduced the heat and simmered it, covered, for about 1 hour.
If I make it again, I will simmer it a little longer than an hour, because the some of the beans weren't as soft as I would like for them to be. They weren't hard, just a little firm. The soup was VERY flavorful and tasty. The family loved it!! SCORE!!! ;-))
I cooked some white rice to go along with it.
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