22 January 2008

Pea soup

Felt like making pea soup. A quick search didn't result in an appealing recipe, so I just improvised.

1 onion
2 leeks
2-3 cups of peas (deep frozen)
3 slices of bacon, cut in big pieces
thyme
bay leaves
pepper & salt
a little butter

Chop onions and leeks and fry them with thyme and bay leaves for a few min in butter on medium heat. Add boiling water, peas, and bacon and season liberally with pepper & salt (depending on how salty the bacon is). Bring to the boil, cover and turn down the heat. Let it simmer for around 10 min. I didn't bother mixing it with the hand mixer.

Today I was offered a piece of home-made castagnaccio, prepared with home-made chestnut flour straight from Tuscany and walnuts instead of pine nuts. The flour is really sweet so this doesn't need any sugar at all (aye labelga ;-)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful! Like the pics. Season liberally: aye, non manca il sale ;-)
Interesting info about the dessert..

Anonymous said...

Oleandri, where did you get those thick peas? This prompts me into making pea soup.

Oleandri said...

Delhaize, deep frozen, organic. Great taste!