Baby, it’s FINALLY cold outside.
What is goinn on – Lauren here, your Kitchen Magician, and when I started my car this morning prior to blow dry time, my hair froze. Truth be known, as opposed to the normal misery – I really didn’t mind it because up until now it’s been feeling like spring around here. Staring into my closet to get ready for the work in the morning was getting INCREDIBLY intense.. was feeling more and more like I was sitting at that table during the Russian Roulette scene of the hit film, ‘187’… As I would grab the hanger with the lightweight shirt I would cringe ….. Samuel L. Jackson yelling ‘SWEATER. DO IT’…. It was that bad..
Ah, alright – I apologize – time to get on track:
BOTTOM LINE – Jim Cantore is THE weatherman. I actually believe that he could control the weather if he wanted to. A higher power of sorts who is just super bad-to-the-bone and stands on the beach WHILE a hurricane slams him in the face with horizontal rain. YET he still holds it together.
And shoot it is finally the season for soup.
SPLIT PEA SOUP – Ready set go
MAGIC BULLET BLENDER PARTS
- [1] Tall Cup
- [1] Cross Blade
ADDITIONAL ITEMS
- [1] large pot
INGREDIENTS
- [1 pound] bag of dried, split green peas
- [7 Cups] chicken stock
- [2] carrots, cut in 1″ pieces
- [1/2] white onion, cut in 1″ pieces
- [1] clove of garlic, halved
- [2] stalks of celery cut in 1″ pieces
- [6] cherry tomatoes, halved
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
*OPTIONAL: baked ham, diced – this is completely up to you. It is a GREAT place to use up leftover baked ham.
INSTRUCTIONS
- - Add carrots to Tall Cup and pulse until desired size (I like small, but not too small)
- - Add onions and garlic in and pulse until desired size
- - Add celery in and repeat three-peat
- - Why would we change it up with the tomatoes? Do it again.
- - Into the large pot add: entire bag of peas, chicken stock, your pulsed veggies, salt to taste, pepper to taste, and if you choose – this is when your baked ham goes in as well!
- - Bring to boil and then simmer for one hour. Stir on occasion. Stir before serving.
Split pea soup – no added crazy amounts of sodium like in that canned garbage, only an HOUR of cooking time, and easy easy easy. A lot of times Debbie ‘the Demolisher’ would make this on Sundays while she was making some other ridiculous ‘Sunday Night Meal’ that was actually going to be eaten on that given day – pop that pea soup in the fridge and there’s a cheap weeknight meal.
Okey doke – much to do – time, lacking. Story of my life, and I’m sure it is the same for many of you… which is why I hope that all of you live and breathe via the Magic Bullet Blender like I do. Sparkle of hope – woop!
Until next time my little snowmen – Happiest Blending, Happiest Holidays, Be Safe & Stay Cool… Warm, but ‘hip’. You got it.
Xo Lauren
