An unusual culinary goal

[commodorified]

I am attempting to make enough pea soup to feed exactly four people, with no leftovers.

As dried peas appear to be directly descended from Napoleon (la soup du jour de gloire?) this is something of a challenge.

I think I've cracked it, though:

One small hambone or a handful of cooked, diced ham (omit if desired)

1 1/2 C dried green peas
2 medium carrots, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
2 3 C veggie broth
4 6 C water
1/4 C onion flakes
2 bay leaves
1 t Pepper
2 T Ozark seasoning

Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, stir every so often for 3 hours or until the peas are correctly mushed)

So far so good ...

ETA

Exactly four servings. Happy slurping has ensued.

Comments

[st_aurafina]

I can only make this soups in batches of 1 million litres, so I am properly amazed at this feat of four bowls only.

(frozen comment)

[commodorified]

That's my problem too, but I was determined! And it worked! It ended up fairly thin and heavily veggied, which was awesome, but in theory I think 2C of peas and the same amount of
liquid as I used might have been safe and given a thicker soup.

[krait]

Mmmmm, pea soup! *envious*

[rikibeth]

I admit to curiosity about this Ozark seasoning.

"No leftovers" is a REALLY tricky thing for pea soup. No pease porridge in the pot, nine days old? I remember one wickedly broke winter where we kept a pot of beans-and-ham-bone soup going on a simmer for a couple of weeks, adding more beans and water as it got low.

I'm impressed at your achievement.

[commodorified]

Ozark Seasoning comes from the lovely people at Penzeys:

http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/p-penzeysozarkseasoning.html

And it is very useful stuff.

I've done that, though in general I left it in the fridge overnight and reheated it for supper.

[james_g4clf]

I am overwhelmed with admiration. The only quantity of soup I have ever made is "too much" (but I'm big on reheated, or even cold, soup for breakfast) so hitting it so accurately is brilliant.

It's that time of the year so we've had several roadkill peasants recently - and soup made with peasant stock afterwards.

[indywind]

I hope you meant PHeasants, but the mental image was macabrely amusing.