henchminion (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} henchminion) wrote,@ 2008-02-22 22:39:00 |
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Pea soup
For lack of anything profound to report, I give you a recipe for really good pea soup.
Ingredients
*About 500g of dried split peas
*A celery root
*Two fat leeks, or three thinner ones
*A handful of baby carrots
*Three cloves of garlic
*About half of a bunch of parsley, say two dozen stalks
*A smoked pork hock
*Two beef boullion cubes
*Some salt
Instructions
1. Put the peas in a big pot with the boullion cubes and cover them with about twice their volume of water. Start boiling them.
2. Clean the other vegetables and chop them fine. Put them in the pot too. You may have to add more water.
3. When the peas have softened and the soup is almost ready, add the pork hock for the last ten minutes. If it's added too soon, all the salt and smokiness gets boiled out of it.
4. After the hock has been in the pot awhile, take it out, cut the meaty bits off, and throw them back in the pot.
5. When the soup has cooled, you should be able to stand a spoon upright in it.
Makes five big bowls.
For lack of anything profound to report, I give you a recipe for really good pea soup.
Ingredients
*About 500g of dried split peas
*A celery root
*Two fat leeks, or three thinner ones
*A handful of baby carrots
*Three cloves of garlic
*About half of a bunch of parsley, say two dozen stalks
*A smoked pork hock
*Two beef boullion cubes
*Some salt
Instructions
1. Put the peas in a big pot with the boullion cubes and cover them with about twice their volume of water. Start boiling them.
2. Clean the other vegetables and chop them fine. Put them in the pot too. You may have to add more water.
3. When the peas have softened and the soup is almost ready, add the pork hock for the last ten minutes. If it's added too soon, all the salt and smokiness gets boiled out of it.
4. After the hock has been in the pot awhile, take it out, cut the meaty bits off, and throw them back in the pot.
5. When the soup has cooled, you should be able to stand a spoon upright in it.
Makes five big bowls.
