{"id":723,"date":"2010-03-16T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2010-03-16T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:33:00","slug":"pity-poor-pea-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/pity-poor-pea-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Pity Poor Pea Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Is it time to grow up?\u00a0 Poor pea soup keeps getting ignored just because its color has squeamish connotations that date back to childhood.\u00a0 How I got the courage to dive in and discover a dish that&#8217;s really quite delicious.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some foods have a hard lot in life.\u00a0 Pea soup is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad, because pea soup is just as good as any other of the creamy vegetable soups like corn, broccoli and tomato.\u00a0 But I doubt there are many among us who are so evolved from our 10-year old roots that we can ignore the resemblance between pea soup and you-know-what.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised at the effort it took just to <em>buy<\/em> box of pea soup.\u00a0 A bright red flag on Imagine&#8217;s Creamy Pea Soup boasted &#8220;New Look! Same Great Taste.&#8221;\u00a0 But the box was still a distinctively suspicious green color, and the bowl of soup on the front was still a matching hue of green, a fact that couldn&#8217;t be hidden even by the sweet garnishes arranged on top.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Imagine Pea Soup with Roasted Red and Yellow Peppers\" src=\"http:\/\/i722.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww230\/mcolletterogers\/Artwork%20for%20Work\/Blog%20Pics\/PeaSoupImaginRoastedPeppers.jpg\" alt=\"Imagine Pea Soup with Roasted Red and Yellow Peppers\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/>Nevertheless, being an open-minded foodie, I magnanimously set aside my prejudices and bought a box. (Didn&#8217;t hurt that it was on sale!)\u00a0 And just last week I plucked it from cupboard for lunch. (Didn&#8217;t hurt that I was starved after a workout and the frig was uncharacteristically void of any leftovers.)\u00a0 It took conscious effort to quash the giggles and automatic &#8220;eeew&#8221; response, but once past the first bite, the going got easy, quickly.\u00a0 The soup was quite tasty.<\/p>\n<p>I found it helped to add roasted yellow and red peppers (frozen from last year&#8217;s farmers market), not only for color but also texture.\u00a0 I imagine that baked and diced potatoes or sweet potatoes, roasted carrots or thin strips of sun-dried tomatoes could be similarly helpful.<\/p>\n<p>So happy pea soup as we head into the season of spring peas!\u00a0 I might actually try to make a batch now.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.\u00a0 One more reason to get past your green soup hangups:\u00a0 one cup of soup contains a whole serving of vegetables.\u00a0 So the bowl of soup I had for lunch delivered a total of 3 vegetable servings:\u00a0 2 servings of peas (in 2 cups of soup) + 1 serving of peppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it time to grow up?  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