Split Pea Soup
Add caption Ingredients: 1 lb bag of green split peas 1 yellow onion 2-3 carrots 6-8 mushrooms (optional) 1 can/box of condensed cream of mushroom soup (Pacific organic is okay but nothing beats Campbells) 1 ham shank - not ham hocks.* 1/2 bay leaf salt and pepper * If your market doesn't have the small ham shank (usually near other smoked ham products) use a ham butt portion. You can use the denser cuts of ham like black forest or other varieties of ham shaped into handy rounds but I think you miss out on some of the flavor provided by the ham bone. You can buy the ham shank butt portion (usually around $15.00) and cut it in half and freeze the left over portion for another round of soup (like Ham and Bean Soup) or to be cooked and eaten as...ham. Left over ham goes in the freezer for later So... to prepare the recipe: Rinse and sort the split peas. Take out any that are black, rinse and put the peas into the slow cooker. A pound of