I made this last night with the following changes. 10 strips of regular
bacon instead of the pancetta, no cayenne and a small can of tomato sauce
with a sprinkle of Italian seasoning as I had no Marinara.

https://2sistersrecipes.com/baby-lima-bean-soup/

The beans must have been very fresh. At one hour, they were slightly
overcooked. I tasted for seasonings. Added black pepper. Tasted great! Added
the tomato sauce and... Not so great. Might taste better when I reheat it
tonight. I didn't eat any last night. Just tasted it.

Pretty sure if I make it again, I'll leave out the tomato.

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 "Julie Bove" wrote:
>
>I made this last night with the following changes. 10 strips of regular
>bacon instead of the pancetta, no cayenne and a small can of tomato sauce
>with a sprinkle of Italian seasoning as I had no Marinara.
>
>https://2sistersrecipes.com/baby-lima-bean-soup/
>
>The beans must have been very fresh. At one hour, they were slightly
>overcooked. I tasted for seasonings. Added black pepper. Tasted great! Added
>the tomato sauce and... Not so great. Might taste better when I reheat it
>tonight. I didn't eat any last night. Just tasted it.
>
>Pretty sure if I make it again, I'll leave out the tomato.

Good move, limas and tomato are TIAD. Limas are good with smoked ham
hocks. Where have you been hiding, I missed the midnight in Paris
scent of your bra.

Sheldon Martin wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>
>> I made this last night with the following changes. 10 strips of regular
>> bacon instead of the pancetta, no cayenne and a small can of tomato sauce
>> with a sprinkle of Italian seasoning as I had no Marinara.
>>
>> https://2sistersrecipes.com/baby-lima-bean-soup/
>>
>> The beans must have been very fresh. At one hour, they were slightly
>> overcooked. I tasted for seasonings. Added black pepper. Tasted great! Added
>> the tomato sauce and... Not so great. Might taste better when I reheat it
>> tonight. I didn't eat any last night. Just tasted it.
>>
>> Pretty sure if I make it again, I'll leave out the tomato.
>
> Good move, limas and tomato are TIAD. Limas are good with smoked ham
> hocks. Where have you been hiding, I missed the midnight in Paris
> scent of your bra.
>

Popeye, angling for some poontang.

"Sheldon Martin" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>
>>I made this last night with the following changes. 10 strips of regular
>>bacon instead of the pancetta, no cayenne and a small can of tomato sauce
>>with a sprinkle of Italian seasoning as I had no Marinara.
>>
>>https://2sistersrecipes.com/baby-lima-bean-soup/
>>
>>The beans must have been very fresh. At one hour, they were slightly
>>overcooked. I tasted for seasonings. Added black pepper. Tasted great!
>>Added
>>the tomato sauce and... Not so great. Might taste better when I reheat it
>>tonight. I didn't eat any last night. Just tasted it.
>>
>>Pretty sure if I make it again, I'll leave out the tomato.
>
> Good move, limas and tomato are TIAD. Limas are good with smoked ham
> hocks. Where have you been hiding, I missed the midnight in Paris
> scent of your bra.

I don't like smoked foods or ham. The soup was actually very good after
sitting in the fridge all day. I did wear that scent once. I think I was 8.

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:49:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Sheldon Martin" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>>
>>>I made this last night with the following changes. 10 strips of regular
>>>bacon instead of the pancetta, no cayenne and a small can of tomato sauce
>>>with a sprinkle of Italian seasoning as I had no Marinara.
>>>
>>>https://2sistersrecipes.com/baby-lima-bean-soup/
>>>
>>>The beans must have been very fresh. At one hour, they were slightly
>>>overcooked. I tasted for seasonings. Added black pepper. Tasted great!
>>>Added
>>>the tomato sauce and... Not so great. Might taste better when I reheat it
>>>tonight. I didn't eat any last night. Just tasted it.
>>>
>>>Pretty sure if I make it again, I'll leave out the tomato.
>>
>> Good move, limas and tomato are TIAD. Limas are good with smoked ham
>> hocks. Where have you been hiding, I missed the midnight in Paris
>> scent of your bra.
>
>I don't like smoked foods or ham.

Um, bacon is smoked, and ten strips adds a lot of smoke flavor.

>The soup was actually very good after
>sitting in the fridge all day.
>I did wear that scent once. I think I was 8.

"Sheldon Martin" > wrote in message
news
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:49:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>"Sheldon Martin" > wrote in message
. ..
>>> On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>I made this last night with the following changes. 10 strips of regular
>>>>bacon instead of the pancetta, no cayenne and a small can of tomato
>>>>sauce
>>>>with a sprinkle of Italian seasoning as I had no Marinara.
>>>>
>>>>https://2sistersrecipes.com/baby-lima-bean-soup/
>>>>
>>>>The beans must have been very fresh. At one hour, they were slightly
>>>>overcooked. I tasted for seasonings. Added black pepper. Tasted great!
>>>>Added
>>>>the tomato sauce and... Not so great. Might taste better when I reheat
>>>>it
>>>>tonight. I didn't eat any last night. Just tasted it.
>>>>
>>>>Pretty sure if I make it again, I'll leave out the tomato.
>>>
>>> Good move, limas and tomato are TIAD. Limas are good with smoked ham
>>> hocks. Where have you been hiding, I missed the midnight in Paris
>>> scent of your bra.
>>
>>I don't like smoked foods or ham.
>
> Um, bacon is smoked, and ten strips adds a lot of smoke flavor.

No. It's only smoked if you buy smoked bacon. Durrrrrrrrr...

Julie Bove wrote:

> I made this last night with the following changes. 10 strips of regular
> bacon instead of the pancetta, no cayenne and a small can of tomato sauce
> with a sprinkle of Italian seasoning as I had no Marinara.
>
> https://2sistersrecipes.com/baby-lima-bean-soup/
>
> The beans must have been very fresh. At one hour, they were slightly
> overcooked. I tasted for seasonings. Added black pepper. Tasted great! Added
> the tomato sauce and... Not so great. Might taste better when I reheat it
> tonight. I didn't eat any last night. Just tasted it.
>
> Pretty sure if I make it again, I'll leave out the tomato.

so much in cooking is about personal preferences. nothing
there sounds bad to me, but i rarely do much to lima beans
because i love 'em as they are. a bit of butter is most often
and then once in a great while i'll add a bit of garlic salt.

as mixed vegetables are frequently used here as additions
to vegetable soups and the soup usually also has tomatoes
in it i've never had a problem with the lima beans in that
being messed up in flavor. so to me this does sound like a
personal preference.


songbird

On 6/22/2020 8:06 AM, songbird wrote:
> Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> I made this last night with the following changes. 10 strips of regular
>> bacon instead of the pancetta, no cayenne and a small can of tomato sauce
>> with a sprinkle of Italian seasoning as I had no Marinara.
>>
>> https://2sistersrecipes.com/baby-lima-bean-soup/
>>
>> The beans must have been very fresh. At one hour, they were slightly
>> overcooked. I tasted for seasonings. Added black pepper. Tasted great! Added
>> the tomato sauce and... Not so great. Might taste better when I reheat it
>> tonight. I didn't eat any last night. Just tasted it.
>>
>> Pretty sure if I make it again, I'll leave out the tomato.
>
> so much in cooking is about personal preferences. nothing
> there sounds bad to me, but i rarely do much to lima beans
> because i love 'em as they are. a bit of butter is most often
> and then once in a great while i'll add a bit of garlic salt.
>
I love limas, too. I don't even add butter to them. I prefer the big
Fordhook limas to baby limas. I disagree with the author's comment
"...lima beans alone have no flavor whatsoever!" Sure they do.

I love soups and would probably enjoy this one *almost* as it was
written in the link, using pancetta. I don't have any marinara sauce on
hand but I do have tomato paste, which was offered as an alternative. I
would *not* have used low-sodium chicken broth; that stuff is tasteless!
If a person is worried about sodium, just don't add as much salt to
the recipe (the amount of which wasn't specified, it just says "salt &
pepper to taste). I'd definitely have kept in the cayenne pepper.

> as mixed vegetables are frequently used here as additions
> to vegetable soups and the soup usually also has tomatoes
> in it i've never had a problem with the lima beans in that
> being messed up in flavor. so to me this does sound like a
> personal preference.
>
>
> songbird
>
I'm curious, songbird. Is the shift key on your keyboard broken? You
never use capital letters in your posts.

Jill

jmcquown wrote:
....
> I love limas, too. I don't even add butter to them. I prefer the big
> Fordhook limas to baby limas. I disagree with the author's comment
> "...lima beans alone have no flavor whatsoever!" Sure they do.

yes, most bean varieties have different flavors and
textures so i am enjoying as many as i can find and grow.

this year i've planted 44 varieties and tests of some
varieties to see if they're the same bean or not. always
fun.

Fordhook Lima beans are one i've grown from the start.


> I love soups and would probably enjoy this one *almost* as it was
> written in the link, using pancetta. I don't have any marinara sauce on
> hand but I do have tomato paste, which was offered as an alternative. I
> would *not* have used low-sodium chicken broth; that stuff is tasteless!
> If a person is worried about sodium, just don't add as much salt to
> the recipe (the amount of which wasn't specified, it just says "salt &
> pepper to taste). I'd definitely have kept in the cayenne pepper.
....

> I'm curious, songbird. Is the shift key on your keyboard broken? You
> never use capital letters in your posts.

i don't take myself all that seriously. the big I
only gets used in more serious stuff. this isn't formal
writing, it's just informal to me and since i'm not being
paid to do it then i do it as it happens. i do try to
spell most of my words correctly and some efforts at
punctuation, but i can't claim perfection on sentence
structure or fragmentoids popping out or other tragedies.

formal names and place names i would capitalize. my
forgetting to use Lima is a mistake, but not critical...

like since you sign your posts Jill i would address you
by Jill and not jill.


songbird

"Julie Bove" wrote in message ...

I made this last night with the following changes. 10 strips of regular
bacon instead of the pancetta, no cayenne and a small can of tomato sauce
with a sprinkle of Italian seasoning as I had no Marinara.

https://2sistersrecipes.com/baby-lima-bean-soup/

The beans must have been very fresh. At one hour, they were slightly
overcooked. I tasted for seasonings. Added black pepper. Tasted great! Added
the tomato sauce and... Not so great. Might taste better when I reheat it
tonight. I didn't eat any last night. Just tasted it.

Pretty sure if I make it again, I'll leave out the tomato.

====

I have plenty of dried beans in my store, I just don't really know what to
do with them

I am copying all the beans recipes I see here, so thanks

Ophelia wrote:
....
> I have plenty of dried beans in my store, I just don't really know what to
> do with them
>
> I am copying all the beans recipes I see here, so thanks

we mostly use them as filler or in burritoes. simple stuff
or even eat them plain, with butter or a little cheese.

if i feel like i want more spice then i get out some
oregano, garlic salt and cottage cheese and turn them into
mock lasagna filling (without the egg and parmesian cheese).

i just thawed out a jar of beans from our last pot that
we made and i don't know what i'm going to do with them
until it happens, but i have been craving oregano lately
so this may happen again soon.


songbird

"songbird" wrote in message ...

Ophelia wrote:
....
> I have plenty of dried beans in my store, I just don't really know what
> to
> do with them
>
> I am copying all the beans recipes I see here, so thanks

we mostly use them as filler or in burritoes. simple stuff
or even eat them plain, with butter or a little cheese.

if i feel like i want more spice then i get out some
oregano, garlic salt and cottage cheese and turn them into
mock lasagna filling (without the egg and parmesian cheese).

i just thawed out a jar of beans from our last pot that
we made and i don't know what i'm going to do with them
until it happens, but i have been craving oregano lately
so this may happen again soon.


songbird

==

Enjoy I think I need to buy a cookbook for beans

---

Ophelia wrote:
....
> Enjoy I think I need to buy a cookbook for beans

there's so much online and at the library that i'm
not sure i'd ever buy a cookbook again. i have a few
left here, but i gave away a lot of mine some years
ago to a neighbor who was a collector. then she moved
away and then passed away so those books are likely
someplace in California now if not thrown out or in
storage or donated to a library or sold off or...

enjoy! i'm waiting impatiently for the beans here
to get to green/yellow pod stage so we can have some
fresh steamed beans.


songbird

"songbird" wrote in message ...

Ophelia wrote:
....
> Enjoy I think I need to buy a cookbook for beans

there's so much online and at the library that i'm
not sure i'd ever buy a cookbook again. i have a few
left here, but i gave away a lot of mine some years
ago to a neighbor who was a collector. then she moved
away and then passed away so those books are likely
someplace in California now if not thrown out or in
storage or donated to a library or sold off or...

I have given away many cookbooks I had to do it when I
moved from a big house to a small cottage Didn't have the space and my
friends were delighted lol

enjoy! i'm waiting impatiently for the beans here
to get to green/yellow pod stage so we can have some
fresh steamed beans.


songbird

I have never thought to grow my own. I wonder if I can do it
here! I need to look that up!

-----

songbird wrote:

> Ophelia wrote:
> ...
> > I have plenty of dried beans in my store, I just don't really
> > know what to do with them
> >
> > I am copying all the beans recipes I see here, so thanks
>
> we mostly use them as filler or in burritoes. simple stuff
> or even eat them plain, with butter or a little cheese.
>
> if i feel like i want more spice then i get out some
> oregano, garlic salt and cottage cheese and turn them into
> mock lasagna filling (without the egg and parmesian cheese).
>
> i just thawed out a jar of beans from our last pot that
> we made and i don't know what i'm going to do with them
> until it happens, but i have been craving oregano lately
> so this may happen again soon.
>
>
> songbird

LOL, I cook like that a lot. Decide when I'm cooking, what it will be.

cshenk wrote:
....
> LOL, I cook like that a lot. Decide when I'm cooking, what it will be.

it was a good lunch.

dinner was strawberries, whipped cream and chocolate sauce
and then a few pieces of cheese and ham. i'm not in the mood
to do complicated cooking lately - too busy outside.


songbird

songbird wrote:

> cshenk wrote:
> ...
> > LOL, I cook like that a lot. Decide when I'm cooking, what it will
> > be.
>
> it was a good lunch.
>
> dinner was strawberries, whipped cream and chocolate sauce
> and then a few pieces of cheese and ham. i'm not in the mood
> to do complicated cooking lately - too busy outside.
>
>
> songbird

Been really busy at work too here, teleworking aside, because I've been
doing that essentially from my actual main office since 2009. It's just
the tools got better now and the others aren't used to it.

Julie Bove wrote:

> I made this last night with the following changes. 10 strips of regular
> bacon instead of the pancetta, no cayenne and a small can of tomato sauce
> with a sprinkle of Italian seasoning as I had no Marinara.
>
> https://2sistersrecipes.com/baby-lima-bean-soup/
>
> The beans must have been very fresh. At one hour, they were slightly
> overcooked. I tasted for seasonings. Added black pepper. Tasted great! Added
> the tomato sauce and... Not so great. Might taste better when I reheat it
> tonight. I didn't eat any last night. Just tasted it.
>
> Pretty sure if I make it again, I'll leave out the tomato.

And add thinly sliced smoked sausage. Very good.

> wrote in message
...
> Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> I made this last night with the following changes. 10 strips of regular
>> bacon instead of the pancetta, no cayenne and a small can of tomato sauce
>> with a sprinkle of Italian seasoning as I had no Marinara.
>>
>> https://2sistersrecipes.com/baby-lima-bean-soup/
>>
>> The beans must have been very fresh. At one hour, they were slightly
>> overcooked. I tasted for seasonings. Added black pepper. Tasted great!
>> Added
>> the tomato sauce and... Not so great. Might taste better when I reheat it
>> tonight. I didn't eat any last night. Just tasted it.
>>
>> Pretty sure if I make it again, I'll leave out the tomato.
>
> And add thinly sliced smoked sausage. Very good.

Not for me. Don't like smoked foods or sausage.

Ok