Bean Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. white navy beans (soaked overnight)
a hambone (with some meat still on it)
2 medium onions (chopped fine)
1 clove garlic (minced)
1/2 c. chopped parsley
1/2 tsp. coarse black pepper
1 tsp. M.S.G.
2 or 3 carrots (chopped fine)
4 stalks celery with tops (chopped fine)

Preparation

Simmer the hambone and soaked beans in 3 qts. water for 2 hours.
Add the rest of ingredients and simmer 1 hour longer. Remove hambone: chop pieces of meat and return to soup.
Mash beans if needed to thicken soup.