Homemade Spit Pea Soup

[Wellspring]

Tonight's Dinner

One leek
4-5 medium cloves garlic
1 C soaked Split Peas (6-8 hours soaking)
2 medium potatoes
One Carrot
One Thai Chile pepper or whatever floats your hot boat
tsp Sage
2-3 Tbl Bernard Jenson's seasoning
Small Handful of Cilantro

Saute leeks and garlic
  when soften, add split peas, diced potatoes, carrot,
  Jenson's seasoning and Cilantro
and add 4-5 C water depending on how thick you want the soup

Cook about 25 minutes tasting to see when soft

Add salt, pepper and sage and let simmer another 10 mintues.

Put in blender (preferably a Vitamix blender) and viola~

(I also added a little extra homemade hot sauce in my bowl; I love the Heat!)

Bon apetit~

[Eddie]

I also added a little extra homemade hot sauce in my bowl

I wonder what that would include.
Spit pea soup!! sounds real yummy wellspring.

[MountainMeg]

My stepdad claims that split pea soup isn't done until the spoon can stand in it unsupported.  

[Wellspring]

My stepdad claims that split pea soup isn't done until the spoon can stand in it unsupported.  

Actually, MM, that's the old style.  We prefer not to cook ours that long; thus, the direction to put it in the blender.  So you have to keep an eye on it to avoid the overcooking part.  A lot of split pea soups bought in restaurants have that "overcooked" or sometimes burnt taste.

The hot sauce is a blend of garden peppers with lime, salt and sometimes a bit of cilantro:  cayenne, serrano, jalapeno and Peruvian peppers.

 

[MountainMeg]

Well, I've always noticed mom takes her portion out before cooking it to that "wallpaper paste" consistency as she calls it.