I guess I did it again. Yup, that I did. I made the best damn pot of bean soup. Not the conventional 15-bean soup, or my infamous Keilbasa and bean soup. But a red kidney bean soup. Kind of like a pasta fagoli soup. But no pasta in it and no white beans. Just extra veggies. Plus a Mexican flair to it. I put in two chipotle peppers. Very yummy.

I started out the old fashioned way. I cut up three slices of bacon and cooked it down, then added three onions chopped up not too fine, I like to have all different size onions and other ingredients. Then after they were cooked down, I added about a half pound of good Italian hot sausage. Meanwhile, I had soaked my beans over night then drained them. I put them in a pot with water to cover them. Started them cooking well before I started the other stuff. After the onions and meat mixture was cooked down I drained the extra fat or grease off of them then added them to the pot of beans. They cooked down till the beans were tender and the liquid was a little thicker, I then added a can of Tomatoes cut up along with the juice from the can. Salt and pepper to taste, then added the chipotle peppers. Two small one’s diced up real fine. After it cooked some more, I added a package of frozen mixed vegatables. And that was that. After the veggies were done, I had my soup. Very good if I say so myself…. I had two and a half bowls of it. Yes I did it again. A simple soup and it just takes time. About two and a half hours start to finish. Most of the time is taken up letting the beans cook down.

We did have a pretty good time on Friday with our parking party. Pete’s barn was the place. A kind of eclectic bar, in an old barn. More of a glorified garage turned into a clubhouse. We had lots of beer and pizza and wings. Not too many people were there, but we didn’t mind. More beer for us. I got home early enough, about eleven o’clock, cause we all had to go to Kiwanis in the morning.
I had about five or six beers, that was enough, I guess I got beer’d out. Must have been too much wings and pizza. Oh well.

Well that about it, for my exciting weekend. Bye bye and buy bonds.