Photo: Penny
It’s Wednesday afternoon and I just finished my fifth split-pea soup meal in 4 days. David and I kicked off Soup January on Sunday night. He cooked, deciding on split-pea soup because someone had given us a ham hock left over from one of the 10 holiday dinners we attended in December.
I’d never had split-pea soup before, but I was hopeful that it would be delicious. As it turns out, it was awfully watery. The recipe David used called for 10.5 cups of water and was meant to serve 4. We have easily gotten 10 servings from the batch. Don’t get me wrong, it was still yummy, and cheap. Ham hock aside David told me he paid $6 for the additional ingredients.
Tonight we are cooking our next soup, which is yet to be decided but will use beef stock as its base. David made a stock of beef using the prime rib bone left over from our $100 dinner.
Honestly, I am already tired of soup. But, a deal is a deal!
Tags: Food, Soup January
January 7, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Just saw that you got linked by The Kitchn! Congrats!
January 7, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Isn’t there a children’s book where they have to eat tons and tons of split pea soup? I think it tainted my opinion of it from a young age.
January 7, 2009 at 4:09 pm
I think that I will just start commenting “mmmm soup” on every single one of your Soup January posts.
January 9, 2009 at 7:15 pm
We have some good soup recipes–let me know, and I can shoot you an email. :-D
Another beauty of soup, though, is its freezability–so it can actually be a great money-saver in the long run, especially when better meats (like pancetta and chorizo) are involved.