White beans and ham, oh my.

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To be honest, there is nothing like ham from the butchering of a whole hog set with homecooked, from dry, beans.  You could figure spices and herbs, you might add onions (though while I love garlic I don't see it in this dish), and there are many other additions, from cheese to cream to creme fraiche which could be added.  At it's core it is more than sufficient.

I was set to have three variants.  A soup with greek yogurt, just beans and ham twice; one with kefir creme fraiche, one with plain yogurt creme fraiche.  As it turns out I could only handle two dishes, the first and the last.  I wasn't sure, as bland as the greek yogurt c.f. was, whether it would even be as good as regular cream in the soup.  It actually was, and I would even claim that it was even better.  It didn't taste any better out of hand, but did a really good job in the soup.  The yogurt derived c.f. was good, but not as good as I had hoped.  Odd how things work out.  Still, no complains, just... leaving cooking or more tasting notes.

I was also wrong about the ham and beans not cutting it.  I shouldn't have thawed other meat.  Sometimes I just make a bad call.  Now I have a three day fast, a large container of beans and ham, and meat enough for two days.  What was I thinking?  Though I'll say this, I would much rather have too much food, even if some has to be tossed, than to have too little... more as I change food types and consumption periods.  A mistake in there can really put a monkey wrench in things.  I may attempt to sort the beans, broth, and ham into containers.  Then freeze those, with time and date.  I am not sure if that freezes well, for how long it will stay good, and all.  There is only one way to learn.  It isn't just an attempt at the foolish, I think the best learning is from going on into the foolish.  So... there I go.  I will read what others have done, what can help, and how long they think it lasts.

Learning new things in the kitchen often.  And other places.  It's a strange world out there.  No shower, no laundry... probably about to let it all cool down, might put some beans up or into one of the refrigerators, then on to bed when my stomach pops back into some kind of humanish shape again.  Boy that was good.  Later or good night.