This soup is a serious game changer! I haven't managed a recipe post in a long time, because life has taken me on so many paths this last couple of years. However, can you imagine how good this soup must taste, to be the first thing I blog about in such a long time? Yep. It was soooo good that I'd made enough for three to four hearty portions, with some gluten free soda bread to go with it, and yet we ate the whole lot. Greedy greedy. But it was begging us to eat it. No messing.
I'd been looking for a way to use the black beans that I'd had soaked the night before and then cooked, thinking maybe they'd end up as burgers, or a black bean chilli. Then I discovered a nonvegan recipe for a stew/soup type dish, which had a large amount of dead pig in it. Well, obviously I wasn't going to make that, but I understood that with it being 'ham', there would probably be a smoky, salty flavour.