Tag Archives: Ham

Split Pea Soup with Potato

  Today is our final morning at our family’s Vermont retreat.  Somehow time up here finds a beautiful way of standing still.  Maybe it’s the fact that there is no TV and we spend full days together, reading, playing games, laughing, and grazing.  Maybe it’s the fact that that there is no ‘agenda’ for several […]

The Split Pea Soup Experiment

With LOTS of leftover ham after Thanksgiving, I decided to make my first ever batch of split pea soup!  I found various strategies for making this soup but went with this one as it was fairly quick, and allowed me to use the ham bone.  The final product was both filling and flavorful and we […]