Bacon and Black Bean Soup

[sniffa]

I made this Tuesday night, on the fly with whatever we had. i didn't measure out most of the ingredients (hey, it was on the fly) and just cooked on instinct. the soup was incredible (IMHO) and if you try it, please let me know how you liked it, and what the real recipe in text form is.

ingredient:

- 6 slices of bacon
- 1 large carrot
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 tomato
- 2 cups of chicken broth
- 1/2 cup of water
- 2 pinches of cumin
- 6 dashes of sweet paprika
- 1 can of black beans
- i'd guess about 1/2 cup or more of spinich

1. start frying the bacon in a pan, or electric skillet. you want to cook until crisp.

2. add the chicken broth and water, cumin, and paprika to a sauce pan and heat a notch or two below medium heat (damn electric stove!)

3. cut/cube the carrot into fairly small pieces (you don't want them to take forever to cook do you?)

4. smash the garlic and dice.

5. once the broth starts to bubble, add the carrot and garlic.

6. wash the spinich, trim the stems, and sliver the spinich into spoon sized portions.

7. when bacon is fully cooked, remove and cut into spoon sized pieces. tast the carrots and if they're not heavily firm, add the bacon to the pot. add the bacon grease too for flavor.

8. roughly 5 minutes after the bacon is added, empty the entire container of beans into the soup (yes, the liquid too).

9. roughly 3-4 minutes after the addition of the beans, add the slivered spinich.

10. during some free time after step 6, you should have cored and deseeded, and cubed the tomato. if not, get cracking now and haul ass. assuming you read the whole recipe before starting you knew this trick question and are already prepared. if so, pat yourself on the back, and then add the tomato cubes to the soup.

11. once the tomatoes are in, the soup will be done in about 10 minutes.

this was f'n incredible, and i'd love to see any reviews of it (especially if they made it).
and again, if you could help me put this in cookbook form, that would be great too.

[AlCzervik]

1. you had me at Bacon.

thats looks really good.

[sniffa]

3. being the cocky shit i am

i thought it would be good. i was stunned at how it turned out. :9

add the bacon grease though. i think that was the kick that put it over the top.

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. Sounds good, and I can easily figure out how to vegetarianize it,.

Thanks!

[flvegan]

4. You can't vegetarianize "bacon grease"

:rofl:

Wait...can you???!!!

[sniffa]

5. heh

i was initially thinking of the Facon (then, turkey bacon) i used to make and that it used to have a good amount of grease (yes, much less than pork).

yeah, how do you emulate grease?

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. You'd be surprised. (sing song voice)

[Gormy Cuss]

7. Pork fat + beans=natural combo.

Black beans, cumin, and garlic are another. Your soup started out on third base.

[sniffa]

8. and here i thought i hit a triple

x(

i can't praise myself enough on this. i hope you try it. ;)

[Gormy Cuss]

9. I'll try it.

My mouth was watering just reading the recipe.:-)