Fifteen (15) bean soup?

[oneighty]

A lady friend of mine makes fifteen bean soup. Question? How can one make a meal on fifteen beans? It is so confusing!

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[EstimatedProphet]

1. They're really big beans. n/t

[maveric]

2. A sign of a devastated economy. Only 15 friggin beans?

I'm making Stone Soup tonight.

[oneighty]

3. Yes Stone soup

I thought of that too. Good soup.

180

[put out]

4. Here you go.

Put a pretty stone in a glass bowl. Add the fifteen beans. It will be your centerpiece and a feast for the eyes. Then...

Cook some red meat of your choice. Drain and add tomatoes, tomato juice, and canned beans. Mix some spice (packaged is OK) and add a dash of cinnamon and cayenne and maybe a little cocoa. If you like, saute some onions and mild peppers. Put it together and cook for a couple of hours. Add more stuff as you see fit. Get some crackers or make corn bread.

Admire the beans in the bowl while you eat.

Although I do like fifteen bean soup.

[FarLeftRage]

5. I have a question my friend

If I eat this 15 bean soup and have pineapple for dessert, will I hear Hawaiian music afterwards?

[slackmaster]

6. Use 15 fava beans and you should be OK

They're pretty big.

[fishnfla]

7. i have a recipe for 9 bean soup

that must be the poor mans version of fifteen bean soup

Hey ed--bumper crop of Blue crabs this year down here, lets throw some traps out

[oneighty]

8. Wow!

For lack of a better expression. I heard that the crab population where I (potted) hee hee hee..is just about gone. The Santee river had been re-diverted from going into the Cooper River (Charleston) to its original and natural flow. The resulting flood of fresh water into the Santee River delta was just too much for the crabs.

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[JitterbugPerfume]

9. mmmmmmmmm crabs and beans

yummy

but maybe not together?

[fishnfla]

10. crab pot, bean pot? maybe not

but we'll have a big crab boil this weekend for sure! Mom and the kids pick crabs for hours. she makes a big pot of *garlic* crabs with the leftovers.

I get to go buy the crabs and drink beer with the crabbers at the fish camp and do the cook-em-up thing. The crabs-and the crabbers-are all fat and happy this year.

[Flaxbee]

11. Are you my sister, oneighty?

I just sent my sister an email telling her to go to Girard Gourmet in La Jolla, CA for their 15 bean soup next time she was in the area. It is soooo yummy! And I promise, there are more than 15 beans in the soup, don't worry.

[oneighty]

13. No I am a male child!

There used to be a restaurant near the Capitol building in DC named "The Beanery" (Spelling) All they served was bean soups; all of them delicious.

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[Flaxbee]

14. yes, I do remember reading other posts suggesting this was so,

but I thought perhaps something weird and cosmic had happened and you'd turned into my sister living in San Diego. You really never know these days!

[oneighty]

18. Nope!

I am destined to remain (Edward) here on the frigid shores of Lake Erie.

We have not seen you on DU for quite a while it seems?

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[Flaxbee]

19. yes, we moved and from about July 30 to a few days ago

I was so completely worn out and cranky I didn't do much of anything but sit on the deck and watch the Canada geese (and register to vote in my new home state of NC)...

nice to see you, 180!

[Texasgal]

12. Did somebody step on a duck? N/T

[JitterbugPerfume]

15. beans --any kinda beans are yummy

but 15 bean soup with jalipeno(sp) peppers and moms corn bread is the bestest

Hi Flaxbee--it is good to see you >smile<

[jackieforthedems]

16. Have Seconds

maybe thirds!

[Modem Butterfly]

17. One word:

HAM

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

20. Mom used to make an Irish Stew with 239 beans...

never any more, because

one more would make it

Too Farty!