Winter Chicken and Bean Soup (with bacon, squash, and other good stuff)

soup for solace from all the rest of everything and who enjoys holidays anyway?

things you’ll need: beans (Rancho Gordo’s yellow-eyed beans were a great choice, navy or northern bean would be good too), chicken, bacon, winter squash, potato, carrots, onion, celery, kale, lemons, bay leaves, peppercorns, thyme, sage, parsley, garlic, salt and pepper but it is soup so you can really do whatever you want.

entirely freestyled, but I did…