Great Recipe by Jacques Pepin that I made, and it's a keeper

This is a recipe for comfort food at its best in my opinion and is pretty easy to fix.

Ingredients include 2 lbs. baby lima beans cleaned to remove any bad beans or dirt and pebbles.

! rack of baby back pork ribs, membrane removed and each rib cut loose from the rack. Place them in a plastic food storage bag and add 3/4 cup kosher salt and 3/4 cups brown sugar, tie the bag off and make sure all the meat is covered. Turn the bag over several time for 24 hours.

You can prepare ahead of time: 1 large bunch raw Kale roughly cut, 2 onions roughly diced, 5 carrots sliced in circles. 5 ribs celery roughly cut, 5 cloves garlic diced, 2 leeks (white parts only) cleaned and rough cut.

1 1/2 lb. smoked sausage cut in bit size chunks,1 1/2 lb. Italian sausage removed from the casing, rolled into ping-pong size balls and browned off.


To cook:

Put dry beans in a 3 gallon pot, add 11 cups water and bring that to a boil and cook for 1 hour once boiling. While that is cooking, rinse the ribs to remove any seasoning off the exterior of the meat and place them in a pot of cold water to soak until needed.

After the beans have been cooking on a low boil for 1 hour, add the raw kale and the pork ribs. Cover the pot, allow it to come to a boil and cook for 1 hour more.

While that is being done, cut up the remaining meat and vegetables to add to the pot, and do so after the second hour is up. Cover and let it come back to a boil and let it cook for 45 more minutes and it is done,

The combination of the meat flavors and the textures of the vegetables is my definition of comfort food.