December 14, 2016
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Looking as Thick as Pea Soup
I like to think I'm a pretty decent cook. I've made some excellent meals. I can make gravy! I know how to cook a turkey to perfection. My pasta dishes are quite tasty and I can turn chicken into a meal fit for royalty. Every once in a blue moon I have a flop. Well, not a complete disaster as in it can't be consumed. It is more like a meal that just didn't meet expectations. When I'm making a new recipe I'll stick very close to the written instructions. I figure I need to "color in the lines" just in case there are difficulties. Like the time the instructions left out the part about stirring constantly and my flan turned out lumpy. It was still edible but the texture really detracted from the dining pleasure.
I bought dried yellow split peas intending to make split pea soup. I followed the directions. The longer I cooked it the thicker it got. I had some for dinner tonight. I could barely get a scoop of soup. I was considering getting out a knife and cutting a chunk when I came to my senses. Wielding my favorite serving spoon, I hacked on it until I chiseled off a suitable portion. It required water at a 1:1 ratio to reconstitute it to a soup consistency. I foresee freezing a portion since there is no way I'm eating on peas porridge hot or cold for 9 days!!
Comments (12)
It looks good actually. Looks like scalloped potatoes and ham.
It had lots of ham in it!! It was a very hearty soup - not just because it was so thick!!
Live and learn. I'm still learning. I bet it was good with the water added.
It had excellent flavor but it needed twice the water... Adding the liquid after the fact is a little messy but worth it.
Looks like the recipe left out the water that was supposed to go into the soup at some point!
I kept adding water until I ran out of room in the crockpot! I'll halve the recipe and double the water - next time!
I hope it tastes good when you reconstitute it.
It does! It is just hard to mix up... but still doable.
this looks sooo good. What is in it?
It is yellow split peas, 1 clove crushed garlic, 1/2 a small onion minced, and a ham bone. After it was cooked I removed the bone and pulled off all the meat that was left on it. The recipe called for 3 cups of water and 3 cups chicken broth but over the course of cooking I added at least another cup of water... Needed even more but the crock pot was full. Next time I'll halve the recipe and double the water!!
had to chuckle ~ my cooking is so random, that this could have been me, for sure ~
Hehe! I bet you are a great cook!! We portioned the remainder into single servings and put them in the freezer. We have ready made meals for this winter!!