Ham for White Beans

tasso

Pickled pork

Smoked sausage. Always.

I am always a fan of pickled pork and some sort of sausage in any form of bean.

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Will the Tasso moisten up some when it cooks down or stays pretty dry?

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Depending on how you cut it up, it may just fall apart. When I use tasso to flavor a pot for stuff like this, I like to slice it 1/4 thick across the grain, then cube. During the cooking it kind of flakes apart and just distributes around the pot.

I use whatever ham jumps up and shouts at me in the grocer. A ham steak is fine. Leftover ham from the freezer is always a good option. I have bought three or four slices of deli ham (1/4 inch thick) and cubed that up. Country ham (Salty cured slices) is good too. I have also used those precooked smoked porkchops. I am sure I have also cooked raw pork chops in the pot.

Never had a bad pot of beans, so I would say all of them work just fine.

I use bacon

Same here. Always good and each pot is a little different.

I’ve usd a leftover honey ham bone in red beans. Nice flavor!