Split Pea Soup to start

Split Pea Soup to start, originally uploaded by treknpaddle.

The other night I made some split pea soup. Here’s how it all started:

2Tblsp Coconut Oil
2 Carrots
1 Large yellow onion
2 Crimini mushrooms

Stir-fried until the oniions were clear and the mushrooms were soft. At that point I added to the stir-fry:

2C Split Peas
1/2C Barley

Fried that up until I could smell the peas, then:

2 Tblsp Herb de Provence
1 splash soy sauce
2 splashes sherry

Fried that until the liquid was gone, and then moved the stir-fry into the pressure cooker, adding 7C water, and cooked it at low pressure for about 40 minutes.

It was really incredible soup, and the smell as it was cooking was so good that it inspired me to make bread!