OK, maybe you went a little crazy cooking up a glorious, 12-plus pound bone-in ham for a party of six this Easter. Luckily, ham lends itself well to sandwiches, frittatas, hashes, salads and more, but there’s one more part of that ham you need to use in all its glory: the bone. And that’s where the wonderful post-Easter tradition of ham and bean soup comes into play.
After you use all of the big slices of ham for various recipes and snacking, there’s still so much meat left on the bone, and of course, the bone itself. It seems wasteful to just toss this in the trash, but ham and bean soup makes the most of these meat scraps and bone. In fact, it’s one of the all-time best ways to use food scraps.
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