French-Canadian Pea Soup

[elleng]

⦁ 1 ham hock or soup bone
⦁ one 16oz. package of yellow split peas
⦁ 2 carrots, thinly sliced
⦁ 1 medium onion, chopped
⦁ 7 cups of water
⦁ 1/2 tsp. ground allspice
⦁ 1 tsp. ground pepper
⦁ 1 bay leaf
⦁ salt to taste
1. In a large pot, add the water, ham hock, split peas, allspice, onions, carrots, peppercorns and bay leaf.
2. Bring to a boil then cover and reduce to a simmer. Cook on medium-low heat for approx. an hour.
3. Remove the ham hock and bay leaf from the soup. Adjust seasoning of the soup with salt and pepper. Using your hand blender, puree the soup to the consistency of your choice.
4. Using a fork and knife, scrap the meat off the bone and flake the meat into bite sized pieces. Add your ham meat back into the soup, stir in and serve hot

[Karadeniz]

1. Mmmmmm.......

[Warpy]

2. Good luck finding soup bones these days

One of the few good things about the good old days was the number of butchers around instead of mega peat packing houses where critters go in at one end and their boneless bits come out the other, wrapped in cling wrap and chilled down to one degree above freezing.

If you said the bones were for a dog, they were free. If they were for soup, they were dirt cheap. I learned that one fast and always had a fantasy dog.

[elleng]

3. Right!

Would be good if I/we were planning to serve a Honeybaked/Spiral cut ham WITH bone, would make for lots of meals AND soup, but not in my plans at the moment. Maybe daughter will want to do such 'soon.'

[Warpy]

5. Holdays are coming up soon

so maybe someone near and dear with cook roast beast with some sort of bone in it.

[elleng]

6. Right, possible.

[niyad]

4. My King Soopers consistently carries ham hocks, and frequently has soup bones.

[elleng]

7. Good. Not near me, in MD!

[niyad]

8. Well, that just SUCKS!!!

[pansypoo53219]

9. close. add celery. no bay leaf. i do marjoram, parsley, thyme.turmeric. chicken bullying. no veg.

i add the raw veg to soup + microwave for 3min + crunchy salad in my soup.

[elleng]

10. I like the idea of raw veg, carrots important.

Gotta check marjoram.

[pansypoo53219]

12. when al dente, everything tastes fresher, onions are sweet. sigh. i have been cooking all wrong.

except broc + cauliflour, but not mushy. have to be steamed w/ browned butter.

potatoes i want cooked tho.

[Kali]

11. if bothering to make a big pot of something make a BIG pot

I would double, skip the allspice and grate the carrots