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Here is an easy and frugal recipe for Split Pea Soup. I usually have all of these ingredients on hand, so other than just a few minutes to throw stuff into the pot, it cooks itself so I can concentrate on other things. Enjoy!
1TB coconut (not extra virgin!) or palm oil (better for you than olive oil 🙂
1 onion, chopped
1 stalk celery, chopped
2 small (preferably red) potatoes, cubed
1 tsp. cumin
black pepper to taste
1 cup green split peas
4 cups water or vegetable stock (I really like this brand; I buy it singly from my market)
1 bay leaf
1/2 cup frozen peas
1 tsp sea salt
1 tsp dried dill
In a soup pot, saute onions in oil until soft. Add celery, carrot, potatoes, cumin and pepper and saute about 5 more minutes. Add split peas, water/broth and bay leaf. Bring to a boil, lower heat, simmer for 90 minutes. Then, add peas, salt, and dill. Stir and serve! Mmmm….
Adapted from Feeding the Whole Family.
Greetings, friends! I want to apologize for sharing too many details about a particular incident on this podcast. I've redone it and hope that if you've heard the initial release, you'll forgive me. My goal is to edify as much as possible and I fell short. I hope the remake will be just as useful to you. In His service,Keri
Love this, this has been a very helpful episode and the one on your pantry. I try to buy ahead and cook ahead but it’s nearly impossible. We struggle to buy enough (whole food, some organic) just to get through a week… to buy one or two bulk items is really really hard. If you have advice on how to budget for that I’d love to hear it. We do Coop but it’s still hard and we usually end up using savings to buy a bit ahead but that’s putting us more behind than ahead. We probably just don’t make enough money to live this way but we still do as long as we can float. (my son has allergies and eczema and eating this way has also helped my hub’s ADD and blood sugar problems)