Split Pea Soup Recipe- Pregnancy Craving #1

With this Pregnancy, nothing sounds good to me...

so when something does..I jump on it!

Split Pea Soup sounded amazingggg..

So at the grocery store I pulled up a recipe on my phone,
grabbed up some potatoes, peas, onion and bread,

 and made it for dinner last night!

I used Ina Garten's Split Pea Soup Recipe on Food Network to know where to start..

Here's my take on the recipe.. check out the comments on the

food network page above to get even more ideas

on how to tweak the recipe to make it how you like it!

I almost followed it exactly..****with my changes marked underneath.
it's delicious. and SO EASY.

Split Pea Soup

Ingredients

1 Cup chopped yellow onions

2 cloves garlic, minced

1/8 cup good olive oil

**I used what I had

1/2 teaspoons dried oregano

1-1/2 Teaspoons Salt

1 Teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

2 Cups medium-diced carrots (3 to 4 carrots)

1 Cup medium-diced red boiling potatoes, unpeeled 3 small

**I put in 4 potatoes

1 pound dried split green peas

8 cups chicken stock or water

**I used 4 cups water & 4 cups Vegetable Stock (What I had)

Directions

In a 4 quart stockpot on medium heat - saute the onions and garlic with the olive oil, oregano, salt & pepper until the onions are translucent..10 - 15 minutes.

Add the carrots, potatoes, stock/water and ALL the split peas (her version says 1/2)

Bring to a boil, then simmer uncovered for 40 minutes.

Stir frequently to keep solids from burning on the bottom.

Taste for salt and pepper and simmer for another 40 minutes.
(Add in more water if you want it less thick..I added in a cup or so..)

Serves 5-6

So yummy served with a piece of french bread.

mm..I want leftovers now..... ;)

Pregnancy Craving #2

I made a pumpkin pie tonight....... hehe.

(I followed the instructions on the can.. was heavy with the spices. :)

I had some pre-made dough in the fridge.

(I grabbed it up because someone left a

coupon on it in the grocery store. so nice right??)

I love my husband so much..

I realized as I was about to put in my evaporated milk it was old..

so he ran to the grocery store to get me some..

only I said condensed milk by accident...........

so he went BACK and got me the right ingredient.

because he loves me so much. :)

he texted this the other night.. he knows I'm having a hard time being SO sick..

things like this help. :)