I'm makin' me some old school Frenchy Canucker pea soup...

Made it twice before with split green peas (they were cheaper) and it was quite awesome.
 
Doin' it with yellow peas (narff narff) this time.
 
You jelli?
 
ya... u jelli.
 
:-p

Old French School Pees?

Rain
My wife ordered some Habitant French Pea Soup (a classic from back home) form Amazon a few months ago.
 

 
 
It looked quite diluted compared to what I remember, but apparently it did the job.
Me I don't eat pork products, so I guess I'll never know. 

'Abitant!!! A Canadian classic. Oh I have stories of how those wonderful yellow cans kept me alive in the olden days.
 
The quality does seem to have gone downhill a bit but it still manages to get the job done. What really ticks me off is that they've essentially doubled/tripled the price. Used to be you could get one of the big cans for between $0.80-1.20. Now it's almost 3 bucks for the same can (with less hammy/pea-ey goodness).
 
But yeah... ole Habitant is the goal when I make this stuff... except better.
 
It's lookin' good.
 
As far as doing it without pork I think one could easily replace all that with some nice, skin on, chicken legs/thigh baked up and the grease saved.
 
I used chicken grease as my pea lubricant the last couple times I made this (with the green peas) as opposed to bacon/pork grease.
 
This time I had actual pork leavin's from a hunk of pork roast I made the other night (I got a huge slab last week for under $2 a pound). That was the "loob" and I had some ham steaks in my freezer that weren't sliced for this exact purpose.
 
It's smellin' goooood.

Beepster
PS: Tell Mrs. Rain that to get the old school "Habitant" peas soup texture from the new cans... just let it simmer for a twenty minutes or so (stirring it a lot). It cooks down to that thick smooshy awesomeness after a while.
 
I add a bit of extra salt, pepper and garlic powder too because the new stuff seems a little bland these days as well.
 

I do all the cooking ;) - thanks for the advice

LMAO
 
You grew up in England, didn't you? I'm sure you've seen worst on a menu. ;)

I love me some pea soup. Lots o black pepper and garlic, and about the consistency of exorcist puke. Mmmmmm!