Anyone else like split pea soup?

I only had pea soup once - during a trip to Santa Barbara at a famous place - "Pea Soup Anderson's."
It was OK; I'm not a big soup person.
 

The first recipe we made in Home Economics was pea soup. We had to press the cooked peas through a mesh strainer/sieve, then add milk, salt (and maybe butter ?) It looked yukky, but it tasted pretty good.
 
Pinky said:
The first recipe we made in Home Economics was pea soup. We had to press the cooked peas through a mesh strainer/sieve, then add milk, salt (and maybe butter ?) It looked yukky, but it tasted pretty good.
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The first recipe we made in Home Economics was eggplant!!!!!!!! I never ate it again. lol
 
Pea soup was one of the recipes that my dad passed on to me ; not that it was ever written down. Dad was a cook in the army during WW II and never made anything on a small scale. He would make a boiler of yellow split pea soup using bacon bones. We would be eating it for days.

At first my sister and I turned up our noses at the soup, preferring tinned tomato soup. Once our palettes developed we loved the smell of it on the stove.

Under lockdown in Sydney, my next order of groceries from the supermarket will bring a supply of the necessary yellow split peas. I already have some bacon bones in the freezer and I will have carrots and onions on hand. The boiler stands ready.
 
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Last week I made a huge pot of split pea soup based on an easy Ina Garten recipe without meat for my husband. It makes a lot of soup for little cost. Three fresh meals and three frozen meals of three servings. Cost was maybe $6 max, and that’s in spite of grocery costs having gone up.
 

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