Black Bean Soup

This was a well flavored meaty black bean soup. Watch the black bean recipes, I meant to make just the black beans, but ending up making the soup by accident. This is not the usual black bean soup with lemon juice, garnished with egg that I am used to. I could not see buying a ham hock when I already had a meaty ham bone in the freezer. The soup was well flavored and I like the celery and carrots. I finally have a decent chili powder, so could use the full amount. Don’t do what I did and use a meaty ham bone, I could have done with a lot less meat.