White Bean Stew with Bacon

Confession. When the weather is chilly and I don't have to feed anyone but myself, I pretty much live on soup for dinner. Just give me a slice of crusty bread and a big bowl of hot, preferably creamy, soup and I'm good till breakfast. Is that weird?





It does help, though, if the soup has some substance because I doubt that a cup of plain broth would quite cut it. So soup with stuff is the