Country Divide Pea - Edible Bean Soup Amongst Ham Too Smoked Sausage

Cold Weather Soup

Nothing beats a pipage hot bowl of thick, make-me-feel-good soup when the atmospheric condition has been horrid equally it has lately. It makes the kindest folks sort of ornery, together with that ain't a proficient thing.

This is 1 of those feel-good foods, the sort you lot wishing your Mamma would've made ya when you lot were growing upwards instead of that tardily canned stuff. If she did brand something this good, together with then she was something special.

The matter I similar nearly this soup is that it comes out actually developed inward the wearisome cooker together with tin forcefulness out travel ready for the tabular array when you lot teach dwelling from work, together with within from the bad weather. Weather similar yesterday when it was raining H2O ice hither inward Mobile. I believe it's called sleet but I cussed together with called it something else. Now all ya got to practice to savour this comforting bowl of goodness is, well, only cut-up everything the nighttime before, soak the navy beans together with adjacent day, throw it all inward the wearisome cooker. The worse business office is waiting all twenty-four hours to teach dwelling for your supper. Enjoy!

Country Split Pea - Bean Soup
about 10 servings

1 loving cup dried navy beans (about two 1/2 cups soaked)
1 pound dried divide peas (I used yellow)
two 1/2 quarts H2O (10 cups)
1 1/2 cups diced smoked ham
1 pound smoked sausage, minor cubed
4 teaspoons chicken bouillon granules (or 4 cubes)
1 onion, diced
1 1/2 cups diced carrot
1 loving cup diced celery
1/2 loving cup diced blood-red bell pepper
1 medium potatoes, peeled together with diced
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
two bay leaves

In a large quart wearisome cooker, add together all ingredients. Cover, together with ready on LOW for 8 hours.

Remove bay leaves earlier serving.

Serve alongside hot crusty homemade breadstuff or cornbread muffins.

Note: Soak navy beans inward nearly three 1/2 cups of salted H2O overnight at room temperature. I suppose you lot tin forcefulness out ready this on High for nearly 4 hours, banking concern gibe together with ready some to a greater extent than inward needed.