Garlic-White Bean Soup—Two Winning Ingredients.
Cooks' Note
These two winning ingredients yield such a tasty and healthy soup that you could probably eat it five days a week. (Finding someone to kiss you could be another matter!) Because of the intense garlic flavor, serve this soup in small portions as a first course. You can whip it up in 15 minutes without even turning on the stove. Use home-cooked dried beans (see soaking and cooking directions on pages 25–27), or canned beans in a pinch. You could easily substitute cannellini beans for navy beans.