Evelyn wrote:
> "Peppermint Patootie" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I have a culinary challenge.
>>
>> I want to repay a coworker for doing me a work favor by making him some
>> homemade soup. I suggested bean soup, and he said he loved lima beans.
>> Can anyone suggest a soup that has lima beans as a main ingredient?
>>
>> Other possible ingredients: I have a one pound package of "chili cut"
>> wild boar defrosting in the fridge. I also will probably be going by a
>> favorite Asian market tomorrow after church. They have pork neck bones
>> there.
>>
>> So, my mind is musing on a pork and lima bean soup. I'm assuming there
>> will be a strong stock, probably from pork neck bones I brown in the
>> oven. Onions are a given. For some reason I'm seeing them as very thin
>> half-circles.
>>
>> But what seasoning? And should there be a bit of darker green in there?
>> Maybe dark green leaves from bok choy? How about cilantro?
>>
>> Do Asians use anything like lima beans? Right now I'm mentally tasting
>> an Asian pork soup flavored with coriander leaves (cilantro) and also
>> containing onion and lima bean.
>>
>> Thought? Suggestions?
>>
>> PP
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> I would make a soup like that with limagrands, those big white dried
> lima beans.
>
> For the stock I would use a small porkette ham or a ham bone.
>
> Soak the beans over night first (best way) or do a quick soak same
> day.... bring to a boil, let stand for an hour and then throw that water
> away and do it a second time and cook them with your ham.
>
> Add chopped celery, carrot, onion, garlic (generous) a potato, bay leaf,
> salt.
>
> Cook it till the limas are really nice and soft.
>
> Take out the porkette, chop the ham up and return it to the soup.
>

smoked turkey wings are a good substitute for ham in any soup made with
beans. You can clean off the meat and add it back when done, too.