When it comes to food, simple is best.
Allow me to present my wife’s bean soup recipe.

- Soak beans over night.
- Put the beans in a crock pot.
- Cover with water.
- Add a bay leaf, onion powder, garlic powder, cumin, salt and pepper.
- Throw in ham hock.
- Set to high.
Walk away for roughly 6 to 8 hours. Leave your house so you can come back and smell the porky-beany goodness when you come in. Remove bay leaf and ham hock. (Husband and dog fight over ham hock)
Serve, preferably with a nice hunk of pub bread and English butter.

On a cold and rainy day, this is like a big blanket in a rocking chair by a fire.

Lovely.