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Get out your crockpots-we all have one. Now I have to admit, my son hates when I take out ours. He hates the texture of most of the meat and he only likes split pea soup from the thing.
My husband loves when I put up a pork shoulder (more commonly known as pork butt) with lots of root vegetables and let them cook with a rub of montreal steak seasoning and a bit of tamari sauce (sweet, rich soy sauce). He also loves this when I pour over some Jack Daniels BBQ sauce. The leftovers are great as sandwiches.
As I mentioned, my son doesn’t really love any of this-he likes his vegetables roasted in olive oil, garlic, kosher salt and pepper. He loves his meats BBQ’d-it’s the native Californian in him. His fiance loves soup and so do the rest of us.
I could serve just about anything in a soup pot to the rest of the family and we’d all be thrilled. Adam, just not so much.
But he will enjoy homemade split pea soup from the crockpot. Here’s my version, but I’d love to hear from all of you about your take on this filling, healthy and tasty bowlful!
Crockpot Split Pea Soup
1/2 lb split peas, rinsed and sorted
1 med onion, chopped fine
2 medium-sized carrots, finely chopped
2 stalks celery, finely chopped.
1 quart chicken stock
1 pint guinness (yes, beer)
2 C water
1/2-1 tsp freshly ground pepper
1 tsp kosher salt
1 good-sized ham hock or a good-sized ham bone
1-2 C chopped ham
Simply put all the ingredients into a 5-6 quart crockpot and put it on low for about 10 hours.
This is great with some toasted artisan bread or some freshly baked muffins.
Have a wonderful rest of your week!
That looks great! We love split pea soup in this house and I just so happen to have a leftover ham bone in my freezer. Well, and I also happen to have some Guinness in the fridge.
Thanks for the great recipe.
When you make your pork shoulder, do you brown it first?
Cynthia
PS I put a recipe on the “share recipes” group with you in mind. it’s a chocolate cake but it has a little chipotle pepper in it. We just finished the last of it yesterday.
YUM!!! This is a fantastic post because I love my crockpot but all the recipes seem to be for really goopy stuff!! I am going to try this on Sunday!
Cindy, I love the idea of putting chili in w/ chocolate! Yum. I actually made some traditional oatmeal peanut butter chocolate chip cookies w/ cajun peanuts-everyone thought I was over the bend, until they ate them!
And I am not one to dirty a whole entire other pot to brown the pork shoulder, but if you are so inclined it sure would deepen the flavor!
I’m also going to try this...mmm good. Next week we will be in upstate NY visiting my sister, the weather will be cooler - the kids all love split pea.
Thank you for the suggestion and receipt.
Tonight's menu!
A brisket of corn beef with some seasoning: cabbage, carrots, potatoes...mmmm melts in your mouth
the corned beef sounds nice and homey! Tonight-turkey basil loaf w/ spinach salad and baked sweet potatoes.
Tonight we‘re having our new faculty for dinner. My husband is manning the grill and I’m in charge of dessert.
who will want your hubby’s grilled masterpiece when they take a peek at your gorgeous dessert????
Making a trifle is so fun and it’s versatile. It’s just layers of cake, any kind of cake, cut into cubes and layers of pudding, fruit, whipped cream, nuts, there’s no limit. I’ve made several of them now for dinner parties and pot luck dinners and they always make a big splash even though they‘re so simple. Feeds a lot of people, too. We had 10 last night and I’ve got leftovers today.
This dessert looks so yummy!! Do you have the recipe listed somewhere?
carine,
u cook like i do and the dish you described is like i have made before and it is the favorite in my house!
glad to hear we have a lot in common LJ! what most people fail to realize is that cooking is meant to fill the soul more than anything else. It’s the home-i-ness that makes us enjoy the family and food served.
I was having a sauerkraut hankering so threw some in he crock pot with
mild Italian turkey sausage
red-skinned potatoes (quartered).
Add 5 tbles spn onion flakes,
about 2tsp. whole corriander,
2 tsp. whole mustard seed,
tablespoon of chopped garlic and
about 5 whole allspice.
cooked on high for 4 hours while I did other ‘stuff’ and OMIGOD is it YUMMY!
I love it when experiments turn out!!
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