White Bean and Bread Soup With Bellota Ham

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• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 sprig thyme, positive much to taste
• 1 mean onion, chopped (1 cup)
• 2 mean to 4 mean cloves garlic, chopped successful fractional lengthwise, past crushed with a knife, oregon much to taste
• 1 mean greenish doorbell pepper, stemmed, seeded and finely chopped (3/4 to 1 cup), optional)
• 3 15-ounce cans achromatic beans, drained and rinsed (preferably no-salt-added)
• 4 ounces bellota ham scraps (may substitute 1 bony from a cured ham oregon 4 ounces of brackish pork oregon 1 cube Knorr veal bouillon; spot headnote)
• 3 cups water, oregon much arsenic needed (may substitute 1 cupful h2o and 1 cupful beverage positive much arsenic needed)
• 3 tablespoons adust sherry oregon sherry vinegar
• 3 slices stale/dry state breadstuff oregon ciabatta
• 1/4 cupful to 1/3 cupful freshly grated Manchego oregon aged pecorino cheese
• Salt
• 4 ounces sliced bellota ham, chopped into tiny pieces, for garnish (may substitute different air-cured Spanish ham; spot headnote)