Happy Accident...With a Dash of Prevarication

It's hard to get fancy with cooking when you only have one arm to work with...so my crockpots have been doing the "heavy lifting" this past week. My family, for the most part, is fairly tolerant about meals (Danny being the lesser part, usually). Today's effort was a little bit of a gamble. I had the leftover ham bone from Sunday's awesome ham, and I wanted to make soup with it. Usually I would use it to make lentil soup - everyone in my family will eat it - Nathan especially seems to love it. Well, my lentil soup recipe calls for some chopped onion and carrots. Chopping vegetables isn't on my current list of activities. So I tried something different.

Beanland Soup with Ham

2-3 cups "Beanland" mix, rinsed (I picked it up in the bulk section of Winco - it doesn't seem to really have beans in it - it did have a couple of varieties of lentils, split peas, rice, barley, and maybe two or three other things)
8-10 cups of water (you can add more later on if it looks too thick)
4 chicken bouillon cubes
small handful dehydrated onion
seasoning - I used rosemary, thyme, parsley and a little pepper

Dump it all in a crockpot and cook for 4 or 5 hours.


I wouldn't bother to post this recipe except that Daniel ate 3 bowls of it. One of those AFTER I admitted to the onions and he figured out there were split peas in it. The hardest thing about making this (for me) was unwrapping the stinking bouillon cubes.