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Default New Year's black Eyed Peas

I used to eat allot of the Knorr packaged soup. Oxtail was my favorite. I
could live on soup..but hubby informed me the other day he couldn't...LOL.
I also like the Campbell's frozen cream of potato soup. Remember their
frozen
soups?

"Evelyn" > wrote in message
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> "Jacquie" > wrote in message
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>> When I cook hubby cleans When we have family over the men do clean
>> up...Yes we trained them well..LOL.
>> That split pea soup sounds yummy...I haven't had it in so long. ...Hubby
>> doesn't like green stuff unless its in a salad Many restaurants don't
>> seem to serve it anymore..or I am there on the wrong day.

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> Wow, you did train them well!
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> Soups are not only healthy, but good diet food, and very economical. For
> some reason soups are no longer as popular as they once were. Perhaps
> with the economy as it is, they will grow in popularity again.
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> There are a lot of canned soups I never see around anymore. Campbell's
> used to have Pepper Pot, Chicken Gumbo, and Scotch Broth. All of them
> were delicious, and I used to always keep them in the house. I guess it
> is time to try and make all of these myself, or some approximation of
> them.
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> Some of the soups I made regularly are; chicken vegetable, Italian Wedding
> soup, chicken broth with Matzo balls, Beef mushroom barley, Lentil, Ham
> barley, and various cream of vegetable soups, such as cream of spinach,
> cream of broccoli, cream of potato and Minestrone.
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> As for approximating some of my old favorites that I never see in cans
> anymore, I probably won't try the pepper pot, since that is made with
> tripe, and I am unsure of how to handle it. But I certainly could make
> the others. A lamb shank might be a good base to make the scotch broth
> with. The chicken gumbo is really just a chicken tomato with the addition
> of Okra and green pepper, and perhaps a piece of sausage.
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> Best Regards,
> Evelyn
>
> Rest in a sky-like mind.
> Sit like a mountain floating on the earth.
> Breathe like the wind circling the world
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>>> "Nick Cramer" > wrote in message
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>>>> "Evelyn" > wrote:
>>>>> "Nick Cramer" > wrote in message
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>>>>> Nicky here is my recipe. It is simple and usually I have these
>>>>> ingredients on hand.
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>>>> Sounds lazy-good, Eva. Fortunately, I have a house full of slaves to do
>>>> my
>>>> cooking! ;-D
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>>> I am the only one around here. Sometimes I can con my husband into
>>> helping a little, but not much. Fortunately I love to cook, and have a
>>> large freezer, which I keep stocked.
>>>
>>> This thanksgiving, a local grocery store gave out free turkeys or free
>>> hams, whichever one you wanted. The hams were not low salt, as I'd had
>>> that brand before, and we'd had our fill of turkey already at that
>>> point.
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>>> So I took a ham thinking I would solve the salt problem some way. It
>>> was a huge ham, far too large for the two of us, so I put off using it
>>> till yesterday. I knew it would be a big job.
>>>
>>> I decided to boil the ham to solve the salty problem, and in the process
>>> get a nice big pot of broth for soup. That worked out very well, and
>>> once it was cooked through, I removed the ham to the side to cool.
>>>
>>> I added a couple of packages of dried split peas, some chopped carrots,
>>> garlic, celery, onion, parsnip and potato, and it made a great tasting
>>> pot of soup. I used my wand blender to puree the whole thing when it
>>> was done. While the soup was cooking I deboned the Ham, and the larger
>>> chunks were sliced and served with dinner, the smaller stuff chopped and
>>> added back into the pea soup.
>>>
>>> I still have quite a bit left, for ham salad, breakfast, lunches,
>>> whatever.
>>>
>>> Today we put the pea soup in plastic containers and froze it. Some I
>>> gave to my neighbor so they will get a nice lunch out of it too. We
>>> tend to like to have home made soup for lunches. This batch turned out
>>> really good.
>>>
>>> There are so many great kinds of soup that can be made from ham broth.
>>> Various bean soups always are excellent, but I also make a
>>> ham/vegetable/barley soup that is to die for, from ham broth as well.
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Evelyn
>>>
>>> Rest in a sky-like mind.
>>> Sit like a mountain floating on the earth.
>>> Breathe like the wind circling the world
>>>
>>>

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