Recommend: Olga's Pea Soup, but made without pigs feet

[anna_x]

Our weather is so crazy, hot, cold, Santa Ana heat, rainy, cold, back to heat...

Anyway, on a cold day this past week, I made Olga's Dutch pea soup but just used a bit more bacon as I did not have pigs feet sitting around my fridge. I hadn't used celeriac before so this was a nice addition to a very hearty, tasty soup.

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[janet-in-nc]

I often make a similar soup but without the bacon (too much fat for us). I keep smoked neck bones

in the freezer and tie a few in a cheese cloth and add it to the first cooking. The neck bones are not as fatty as a ham hock. Sometimes I use half lentils and half peas. Good that way too.

 

[charley]

When I make pea soup I often use either leftover ham and a bone or I cut up smoked sausage

both for seasoning and for some meat in the dish.