Chorizo and Butterbean Soup

On the way home from dinner last night, we realised that we didn’t have anything planned to eat this evening. I suggested we soak some butterbeans and find something to do with them today.

It was doomed to failure from the start really, I like to plan meals in advance and don’t really work very well under pressure. I spent some time looking for a recipe that appealed today and, not really finding anything that hit the spot, settled on this Delia Smith recipe.

We didn’t have any bacon so I substituted that for chorizo. On looking through the recipe properly, it seemed a little disjointed with lots of elements being cooked separetely. I started by frying off the chorizo before removing it from the pan and then frying the rest of the ingredients while the beans cooked. Delia’s 20-30 minutes cooking time for the beans was optimistic to say the least, they took over an hour before I could combine all the other ingredients and add the milk and parsley.

I’d love to say it was worth the wait but it really wasn’t. The end result was thin and watery and, even though I’d tried to combine the ingredients in one pan, the dish just didn’t come together.

There’s loads left which I was planning to pack off with Stephen tomorrow for lunch, perhaps he won’t read this before he leaves for work in the morning.