On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 17:41:52 -0800 (PST), Not Steve Wertz
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>Sheldon wrote:
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>> Decided this cold day was the day for pea soup... cooked five pounds
>> of split peas in my16 quart pot with a big meaty ham bone... 4 pounds
>> green peas with 1 pound yellow peas:
>> https://postimg.org/image/5xc8v91ph/
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>Looks very tasty...
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>We are in for a big snowstorm here in Chicawgo, school and most workplaces are closed tomorrow, so a three - day weekend. Stopped by the store on the way home, and it was the busiest I've ever seen it, had to wait for a shopping cart even; booze FLYING off the shelves, lol. I've got lotsa stuff for comfort food, will decide in awhiles what to make. Saw a co - worker there, he had the makings for a duck/snausage gumbo, spareribs, etc. It will be the kind of weekend when peeps will not be leaving the house...

Got 8" of snow here yesterday and the temperature was mid teens...
schools were closed. It let up at 3 PM so I went out to plow while I
still had light. Today is even colder (8º now) so was a no brainer
for cooking a big pot of soup... most is already in the freezer. Pea
soup is one of our favorites so if I'm going to prepare a pot I make
enough to last a year. Last week we finished the last of the previous
year's batch. Even though it's a big pot I don't fill it to the tippy
top, need room for stirring. Next will be the beef barley 'shroom.
Everyone who visits says my soups are the best. At one point I was
thinking to become the Catskill Soup Nazi... but I wouldn't enjoy
cooking soup every day... already been there, done that.
Actually I was the original Soup Nazi.