Split Pea Soup

Makes 8 servings

Ingredients

■  10 cups water, chicken broth, or mixture of both

■  4 cups dried split peas, rinsed and picked cleaned

■ 1 cup diced ham

■ 1 cup chopped celery

■ 1 cup chopped onion

■ 1 cup sliced carrots

■ 1 teaspoon salt

■ ½ teaspoon pepper

■ ¼ teaspoon crushed dried marjoram

■ 1 bay leaf

Instructions

Put all the ingredients into the slow cooker. Cover with the lid and cook on low for 8 to 10 hours. Or cook on high for 6 hours, until the split peas are tender.

—excerpted and adapted from Frozen 

Assets: Cook for a Day and Eat for a 

Month,by Deborah Taylor-Hough