Winter Bean Soup

1. 1

   Melt the butter in a small pot, and add the onion and potato.

2. 2

   Saute for a few minutes, and pour in the broth.

3. 3

   Simmer for 30 minutes, covered.

4. 4

   Add the greens during the last 5 minutes of cooking, as well as the dried beans.

5. 5

   Stir in the sausage at the end, and heat through.

6. 6

   Serve in a big soup bowl with croutons and some (optional) Parmesan floating on top.

7. 7

   If you dont have any sausage, use some meat scrapsleftover lamb or pork or dark poultry meat.

8. 8

   Instead of cooked dried beans, which you may not have stashed away, try fresh fava beans.

9. 9

   You have to shuck them and then peel off the skins of the beans, but youll only need about a dozen for this soup, so its not that hardanother advantage of cooking just for one.

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