Friday, January 3, 2025

the friday feed: ham and bean soup

The Friday Feed needs a little revamp. I enjoy food, cooking and creating with it, but sharing recipes is getting a little old. Food is integral to our lives - for our everyday meals, for energy, for our health, for social interaction, for comfort and celebrations, for memories. 

The Friday Feed will remain but with a little twist. It will be a food chronicle with a little slant: an original haiku will accompany the story. That's going to be 52 haikus from now until the end of the year. You might be thinking, haikus are easy - three lines with 17 syllables (5-7-5) - but they're not quite as easy as you think. Typically haiku are about nature and depict a specific moment in time. Mine will reflect on a personal insight based on an observation or experience from my kitchen.

The extra gift from Christmas, bean soup featuring the leftover Christmas ham. Black-eyed peas are supposed to be THE good luck bean for a New Year's meal but when your family doesn't like black-eyed peas, you substitute and make an unforgettable ham and bean soup that warms their tummies and their hearts. New Year's day was windy, gray, cloudy, with a little spit of snow. A perfect soup day.


Beans and Christmas ham

boiling in Mom’s orange pot

New Year’s comfort food.



Really good ham (Prosciutto) from Joe's Italian Deli, Little Italy, Bronx, NY. Definitely a more interesting photo than my spiral sliced ham on a cutting board.


6 comments:

  1. I will look forward to your creative friday posts. Foodie Friday with a twist.

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    1. Thank you and I look forward to your Friday food posts, too.

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  2. Very creative. My sister used to make the best ham and bean soup.

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    1. It sure hit the spot and it makes tasty leftovers.

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  3. Oh my how I wish
    I had a deli like yours
    to buy such fine food.

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    1. Your words and kind thoughts
      made me grin from ear to ear.
      Thank you, Catalyst!

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