Brown seasoned meat in butter with onions and set aside. Using large covered pot, cover pre-soaked beans with water, add garlic and let boil until beans are soft. When beans are soft, add pig tails, browned meat, black pepper and thyme. Add enough hot water to cover contents and let simmer for at least an hour or until meat is cooked and stew begins to thicken. Salt to taste. Twenty minutes before stew is cooked, add scallion and unbroken pepper. If desired, dumplings may be added at this time. Serve over white rice.

Place soup meat and pig tails in a large soup kettle with about 4 liters (4 quarts) cold water. Boil until meat is nearly cooked, then add coco. In a separate saucepan, place all chopped green and other vegetables (without water) and steam covered until cooked, about 10 minutes. Rub all vegetables thru coarse strainer or colander into soup kettle. Add all seasonings and hot pepper. Taste for flavor and if more salt is needed, add, if more boiling water is needed, add. Simmer until soup appears to have thickened, then add shrimp. Lastly, add coconut milk and cook for only 5 minutes after last addition.

In a large saucepan place soup meat and salted beef or pig tails in 2 liters (2 quarts) cold water and boil until meat is fairly tender. Add diced pumpkin and pepper and boil until pumpkin is completely dissolved. Add all seasonings and taste for salt. If necessary, add a little water.

Place soup meat, pig tails, and peas in a large soup kettle with about 4 liters (4 quarts) water; boil until peas are nearly cooked, then add seasonings, coco and whole unbroken pepper. Boil until peas are cooked; remove pepper and discard. Remove meat and place in a separate dish. Pass soup thru colander and rub out peas, discarding the skins. Taste for flavor and at this stage, add salt if necessary and more boiling water, if necessary. This soup should be moderately thick. Add croutons.

Place soup meat and pig tails in a large soup kettle with the water and cook for 20 minutes. Add all vegetables, seasonings and salt and simmer until vegetables are cooked. Taste for flavor and add what is required. If more boiling water is needed, add.

Wash beans and place in pot with sufficient water to boil. In a separate pot, pork tails are placed in water and boiled until soft. Cut the boiled pork tails into pieces and place in the pot with the beans when the beans start getting soft. Continue to boil until beans are soft. Seasoning made from tomato, onion, garlic and cumis is fried lightly and is strained while being placed in the pot with beans and tails. Then boil for a very short time. Serve over white rice.