This was a game changer for me!

Last year some time I was given some split peas.  I have never had split peas and wasn't sure what to do with them.  This past weekend I decided to try and see what I could do with them besides split pea soup.   Split pea soup just doesn't look nor sound appealing to me.  I have tried cooking them in the microwave and that just didn't work as well as I thought it should have.  I was looking for crockpot recipes for cooking them as that is the easiest way for me to make things that require a longer cook.  Every recipe I found said to rinse and soak them for 6+ hours.  Perfect! I could soak them overnight.  I found recipes for stir frying them and making pea and pasta salads.  So that was my plan, soak them and make some sort of pea salad with some ham I have in the freezer and whatever else I could add in.

Fast forward to the next morning.  OH MY GOODNESS! I drained and tasted those soaked peas and was instantly in LOVE with them!  No added flavor needed.  They taste just like fresh peas from the garden, when I was a little girl.  YA I finished the first batch off and soaked another batch only bigger.  I bought some carrots from the store and now I have raw carrots and peas.  MMMM! Just like fresh from the garden.

WE have also been trying to eat healthier snacks.  This week we bought some blueberries on discount, then went back the next night and got some black grapes and a few apples.  This bowl of grapes and blueberries are our snack tonight.  The apples will be my snacks this weekend.  I may even have some peanut butter with them.  The blueberries and grapes were hubby's request, and he may have some apple too, providing they don't have too much of a chemical taste.   I don't like the chemical taste but can tolerate it.  Hubby on the other hand chooses not to eat them.  I don't want to waste the food. LOL!