I did the same thing but added frozen turkey from Thanksgiving with the beans the night before, New Year morning added Christmas ham bone, mushrooms, a mix of baby potato colors.
This crock is a bit too small to boil a whole ham bone - especially if the beans are already in. I just cleaned the meat off and tossed the bone in the chicken pen. At least some use out of it. Nothing like a meat bone to bring out the velociraptor in chickens.
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