Five Porks and Two Beans

Submitted by TooAllergic

"With a big mug of black coffee... I want for nothing."

 

• Ready In: 1min
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 2 cups dried great northern beans, soaked over-night
• 2 cups dried cranberry beans, soaked over-night
• 4 ounces fresh pork sausage
• 8 ounces bacon, chopped
• 3 ounces country ham, diced
• 5 ounces chorizo sausage, smoked, sliced into thick coins
• 1 ham hock
• 10 cups stock (I use homemade Chicken)
• 10 garlic cloves, peeled, crushed but whole
• 2 onions, quartered
• 2 carrots, peeled and quartered
• 2 stalks celery, quartered
• 1 lemon, quartered with most seeds removed
• pepper
• cayenne, pinch

directions

1. In a large dutch oven, saute the pork sausage and bacon for about 5 minutes -- until cooked about halfway.
2. Add the ham, chorizo, beans, cold stock and ham hock. Bring to a boil.
3. Cut back down to a simmer. Add garlic, onion, carrots, celery and lemon. Season.
4. Cover. Simmer for 45 minutes-1 hour (until beans are tender). Stir occasionally and skim the foam from the top, as it forms.
5. I serve this in a big bowl, bubbling hot, laddled over raw, baby spinach (it will wilt it immediately) with a sprinkling of the best balsamic vinegar and best extra virgin olive oil I can afford. This is brothy, steamy comfort food for me. The vegetables melt in your mouth. Enjoy!