Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Beans & Ham Hock Soup w/ Mini Cornbread Muffins

I used 4 cups of Great Northern Beans. I rinsed them, brought them up to a boil in 10 cups of water for two minutes, took them off the heat and let them sit in the pot for an hour.
Added chopped onion and a few garlic cloves
In go the ham hocks and we're back on the heat. Simmer two hours. 
Pulled the ham hocks out after an 1 1/2 hours to cool so that I can strip the meat from them. 
You can get a pretty good amount of meat off ham hocks. Not bad for cheap meat.
At this point, I've finished the cooking of the beans and have the burner on low. Added all the ham hock meat back in the pot to warm up.
In the middle of cooking soup, I whipped up some Cornbread batter to make mini muffins. I just followed the instructions on the package of cornmeal I had. If there was a box of Jiffy mix in my pantry I would have used that.
My mini muffins are done!! How Cute! **Bake them according to the instructions on the package of cornmeal or mix that you use.
Finished! Ready to eat! 

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