Bleki Soup
Menu Bleki Soup (Roman Bean Puree with Bleki and Pancetta) Waldorf Salad For months, I had been trying to figure out the thick bean soup my mother recalled from her childhood. She referred to it as "black-eh." I had come to think of it as our family Mystery Bean Soup. Just like our family history, the story about this elusive soup emerged slowly. I'd had an "ah-ha" moment when I figured out that my mother might be referring to bleki, the square noodles that are a delicacy in Slovenian cooking. And then it turned out that the beans she recalled were actually Roman beans or borlotti, not the black beans I had imagined. Put together Roman beans and pasta or noodles and you get pašta fižol, a tasty soup-stew. For my Week 12 dinner, I had made a version that my husband and I enjoyed. But I suspected that it wasn't quite the soup that grandma used to make. Finally, I read a single line on a Slovenian website that pulled it all together. It desc...