Our garden earlier today...winter
is dragging it’s heels. This morning we were all set to make a day trip to the
Isle of Wight to visit my Dad for his birthday.
The weather had other ideas. “The
snow won’t go south of London” said the weather forecasters. I awoke to snow. I kept hoping it would stop. We ventured out but a scary twenty minute
drive later we had turned our car around and were headed for home.
So what to do with another
grey day stuck in doors? Make soup of
course. I happened upon this recipe when
I was searching for something else entirely.
This is a lovely chowder, bright green and so warming. The peas are flavourful and complemented by
the crisp, salty bacon. It is one of the
easiest and quickest soup recipes I’ve made.
If you have a bag of frozen peas languishing in your freezer you have to
make this soup. I also think this would
work if you wanted to make it vegan. The
soup was plenty tasty enough even without the addition of the bacon. I forgot to add the butter at the end and
didn’t feel I’d missed out on anything.
It was the perfect antidote to
the freezing cold day and very filling too.
The name just makes it all the morning intriguing. Enjoy!
Recipe here.
Peas and bacon, together at last. :) (Not that our bacon looks anything like that...but hey, it's still bacon.)
ReplyDeleteLike they were always meant to be. :)
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