OT- Split Pea Soup

jeffwit · February 2018

I've had a hankering for split pea soup for a while now. Mom used to make it when I was a kid, but I haven’t had it in years. My family claims to hate it, but I know for a fact that 3 of the 4 of them have never had it, and my wife is often wrong about things. She is gone all day and put me in charge of dinner, so away we go!
Had a ham bone left from Christmas that I saved for this very purpose. I’ll post the pics as I go along. No Egg was used, but here is a picture of some eggs from my chickens to keep the BGE police away.

jeffwit · February 2018

Started with some bacon in my cast iron skillet. None of the recipes I looked at had bacon, but I figured if you start with bacon in cast iron, it’s hard to go wrong.
When the bacon was done, pulled it out of the skillet and added onion, shallot, celery, and garlic.

When the veggies softened, but them in the slow cooker with chicken stock, dried peas, bacon, carrots, thyme, bay leaf, salt, pepper, and the ham bone.

Thanks for looking, I’ll update in a few hours when it’s done.