I just put in a pound of navy beans to soak. I’m thinking maybe Senate Bean Soup for the guys’ Friday night fun.
You remind me of my first try at bean soup..had navy beans and some others...so i just thought if I put them all together I’d have an awesome colorful soup....some of the beans were black and the color came off so it looked worse than mud! ..and the taste was ugly as sin!
I always loved my Granny’s Navy Bean Soup; and the Senate soup is a perennial favorite. Here’s the Wiki on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_bean_soup
If you do a google search, there are lots of recipes, some with mashed potatoes and some without. Here are two recipes on the Senate website (warning: the second ‘Dubois’ recipe makes 5 gallons ;-):
https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/bean_soup.htm