Recipes for: January 3, 2009

Dinner: Ham-Bean Soup inspired by the Black Bean Soup recipe from Dana Carpender's 200 Low Carb Slow Cooker Recipes. We bought a bone-in ham (organic, Matha Stewart brand) from Costco, and have eaten it in various incarnations since Christmas Eve. Jim got most, but not all, of the meat off with his favorite electric knife. I covered the ham bone with water and it is simmering for a couple of hours with half of an onion (chopped), a clove of garlic (chopped), a handful of baby carrots, and about 6 stalks of 'on its last leg' celery (chopped). I used some of the broth to make the soup for dinner. I do have to be careful - for some reason, Jim's blood glucose measurement is higher in the morning when he has had soup for dinner the night before.