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Split Pea Soup Permeates the house..

by Jill Carpenter
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Oh, split pea soup.
I blanketed you in spiral cut ham cubes, topped you with diced carrots, celery, onions, and garlic, with a bit of parsley and penetrated you with a bay leaf or two.

And now you simmer in the crockpot, sending scents of mouth watering enticement..

But alas!

You are still hard you little devilish split peas from a bag. How dare you even tempt me to take a bite when I know you have another 4 hours to swell to your purest of potentials.

A cloud covered cool day even for Florida will not prevent me from scarfing you down in delight.

But patiently I will wait. Till 6:30 at least.

Till then I will sit on the outside porch, not to be teased by your aromatic heaven inside.
  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    I've made split pea soup in the slow cooker a couple of times in the past 6-8 weeks. My recipe is similar to yours, but I used bacon instead of ham and add a little potato, along with "Better Than Bouillon" chicken stock.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      I get a spiral ham when it goes on sale, and hack it up for different things.

      Playing "sister wife" to my brother in law tonight, and he likes soup!
      Good day for it too as it is a bit nippy down here today.

      I never did get into potatoes in my pea soup. It is thick on it's own. Do love a bit of extra carrot in it for color, texture, and added sweetness.

      My sis can't eat potatoes anymore, so this is something she can enjoy on her return (if there is any left, haha).
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    Sounds delicious.
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    • Profile picture of the author positivenegative
      Always make sure your cat is out of the way when you have split pee.


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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        Was chilly here yesterday so I made beef/vegetable soup. If I had to make a small batch of that to save my life....I'd die. Soooo good - and better the second day....but it's all gone tonight (except for the two large containers in the freezer).

        Homemade soup makes the house smell so good!
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      • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
        Originally Posted by Jill Carpenter View Post

        ...And now you simmer in the crockpot, sending scents of mouth watering enticement....
        Oh! The scent is permeating your house! A far different scenario than what I imagined from the thread title!

        Originally Posted by positivenegative View Post

        Always make sure your cat is out of the way when you have split pee.
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    I would love to have kitchen utensils that did not birth monsters.

    Tellya, I have only to touch a spatula an' Satan is spawned.

    I would love to say it is my only failin', but I have more — all of them verifiable essentials.

    "Why, she doesn't knit, she doesn't cook, she doesn't make clothes for the little children. Then what is the point of her existence? Tarry not, ye bulldozer weildin' hordes of utilitarian dreamers driven amok: run her offa the nearest cliff face so her evil ways inspireth all to manifold goodliness."

    So: I am gonna get into loads more salad in 2016.

    Proper salad, involving meat, an' mebbe the odd accessory burger.

    I figure it is a rule of the universe that you cannot burn a salad unless you accidentally slice cucumbers in the epicenter of an inferno.

    So right now, I am dreamin' of a bed of lettuce with a Big Mac curled up on it, snorin' like a dog.

    Only edibility made hella more enticin' than this could supplant this vision of heaven.
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    Hey Dave, I missed the split pea soup deal also, which makes me more of a hopeless catcher than Joe Mobley's Santa Girl over in the other thread, but there is somethin' inspiringly infusional about the word 'permeate' that invites you in to where it's seeped prior to your nose figurin' the deal.

    Then we got blankets an' carrots an' all manner of yummy.

    Tellya, they gotta figure swimmin' in soup for the Rio Olympics.

    Imagine 8 guys in goggles an' sleekies battlin' it out for gold in a pool of steamin' Minestrone.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      Princess - you got time. I didn't learn to cook until I realized it's a lot like chemistry. That made it sound interesting so I started experimenting and got rather good at it.
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      • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
        Sounds yummy, Jill, but I can't make it without a big meaty ham bone and a good pile of potatoes in mine as well as the other stuff you use. Two bags of split peas make close to 5-1/2 quarts of soup and it doesn't very long in our house.
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        • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          Princess - you got time. I didn't learn to cook until I realized it's a lot like chemistry. That made it sound interesting so I started experimenting and got rather good at it.
          K, gonna blow up my kitchen one kumquat risotto at a time.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Split pea soup is how my boiled dinners (ham, potatoes, carrots, cabbage) always end up. I love home made soups. Always have to make bread with them, though, because I'd starve eating only soup. Soup, homemade bread with real butter, and a side salad.

    Crap. Now I'm going to have to eat again. This is the real reason I came back to the WF - because people always end up posting about food so I eat and it helps me maintain my weight. Almost withered to nothing that two weeks or so that I was gone.
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    I'll take mine with chicken and a bit of rice in my bowl not the pot, and it's always better the second day.
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    • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
      Originally Posted by TLTheLiberator View Post

      I'll take mine with chicken and a bit of rice in my bowl not the pot, and it's always better the second day.
      I've never tried it with chicken or rice, it's always ham and potatoes, etc. You are so right about how much better that soup gets the second day, even the third is so much better than right after it finishes cooking. Hard to believe something so delicious the first day can get better, but it sure does.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        one kumquat risotto
        I make a mean risotto (love the stuff) but haven't tried kumquats...oh well, next time.
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        • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          I make a mean risotto (love the stuff) but haven't tried kumquats...oh well, next time.
          My Grandmothers house has a kumquat tree. She used to ship them up north to us in the winter with some oranges.

          You only eat the skin you know....
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      • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
        Originally Posted by AprilCT View Post

        I've never tried it with chicken or rice, it's always ham and potatoes, etc.

        You are so right about how much better that soup gets the second day, even the third is so much better than right after it finishes cooking. Hard to believe something so delicious the first day can get better, but it sure does.

        My fav foods index card has been updated.


        Thanks for the reminder!
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        • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
          Round II - Split Pea Soup

          Giant frozen ham bone.

          There you sit on the counter as I decide just how many hours it's going to take for you to fully release your rock solid marrowed center.

          Feeling too lazy to cut the carrots into perfect cubes today.

          The guinea pigs cheer in their cage, awaiting a bay leaf that I might share.

          The end.
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