Every day I have to cook... it could be mundane, but I love food, so every meal is, or at least should be, an experience. I like to share the experience in pictures, but perhaps I'll be able to share more than pictures as I explore the realm of cooking and recipes each day.
Being sick does not make for a good cooking experience but today the cold weather calls for some good soup! Right before Christmas I made a pretty good pea soup from a mix, but found it to be too salty for my taste. I added some potatoes to it to cut down on the over salty taste, and it helped, but still was more salty than I enjoyed. Today I used some dried split peas and set out to make a good and hearty soup using the left-over New Year's Day ham, in my brand new Le Creuset Pot!
Here is my recipe:
First I cut up a medium sized onion and cooked it down on medium heat with a little olive oil in the frying pan. To that, I added 2 sliced up carrots, 2 celery stalks chopped, 3 cloves of garlic chopped or diced and cooked them until they were all starting to sweat, turned down the heat a couple of notches, then added 1 cup hot water to them to get all the juices and flavor out of the pan. I rinsed 1 lb (2 cups) dried split peas and put them in the pot. To that I added the water and cooked onion, carrot, celery and garlic, and 7 additional cups of hot water to the pot. I also added all the ham leftover from New Year's Day, about 1 lb or 2 cups cut up into smaller pieces. I covered the pot and stirred occasionlly, simmered over a low heat for about an hour. The meal is complete with baked sweet potatoes and a salad with red leaf lettuce, sliced tomatoes, and avocado. I will top that off with homemade bleu cheese dressing that I made earlier this week.
Bon Creuset!
4 comments:
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This looks delicious! Someday I hope to dine with you my dear cousin and experience this love of food that we both share! Bon appetit! Love, Susan
I'm too lazy to cut the ham off the bone, I'll usually just toss the old bone (with the scraggly bits of meat) into the pot and let them cook off. Plus, that way I get the good extra flavor of the marrow into the soup.
Dr Bill... I used the ham bone in the black eyed peas on New Years, so mostly I used this soup to get rid of the leftovers. I am lucky... I live with an old butcher. His son is a chip off the old block!
I love good homemade pea soup and your recipe fits the bill! I mkae my soup is a similar fashion with the addition of a bay leaf and a teeny tiny pinch of allspice.
4 comments:
This looks delicious! Someday I hope to dine with you my dear cousin and experience this love of food that we both share! Bon appetit! Love, Susan
I'm too lazy to cut the ham off the bone, I'll usually just toss the old bone (with the scraggly bits of meat) into the pot and let them cook off. Plus, that way I get the good extra flavor of the marrow into the soup.
Dr Bill... I used the ham bone in the black eyed peas on New Years, so mostly I used this soup to get rid of the leftovers. I am lucky... I live with an old butcher. His son is a chip off the old block!
I love good homemade pea soup and your recipe fits the bill! I mkae my soup is a similar fashion with the addition of a bay leaf and a teeny tiny pinch of allspice.
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