Showing posts with label split pea soup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label split pea soup. Show all posts

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Split Pea Soup

Soups are so easy especially the kind you can put in the crock pot!! I follow a general guide for this soup but I don't really measure and it seems to work out. I like to serve this with corn bread.

Ingredients:

Carrots, chopped (about 1 cup)

Celery, chopped (about 1 cup)

Onion, chopped (1/2 medium onion, or 1/4 cup dried onion)

1 package dried split peas

1 34 oz. container chicken stock

salt and pepper to taste

You can also put a ham hock in this but I find that to be totally gross. I have put in cooked bacon before and cooked it and have done crumbled bacon on top as well.

Directions:

Put all ingredients in crock pot and cook on low for 6 hours or more. You may have to add some water if you cook it longer than the 6 hours.

EASY!!!

You can serve with sour cream and crumbled bacon or just plain.

1 cup = 3 points (bacon and sour cream add points)

Only Cadey will eat this but everyone eats the cornbread. My philosophy lately is I can't please all 6 of us, so I make what I think sounds good and I know Dennis and Cadey will like whatever and the other 3 are hit and miss so they will just have to deal. I just don't know what else to do?? I think it is a common problem, right?