Jan’s Pea and Ham Soup

Ingredients:

• 1 small leek
• A few small carrots
• About 300g chunky bacon offcuts
• 200g yellow split peas
• salt and pepper
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 clove garlic

Rinse peas and boil on their own … and then remove scum from top of the water

Chop leek and carrots ( but not the ham) and throw everything in together with a few cups of water and simmer for an hour to an hour and a half.

Remove the bacon chunks from the cooking mixture.

Blend remaining mixture in a blender.

Chop the bacon chunks up separately and add to the blended mix. Reserve a little ham for garnish.

Serve hot with some parsley and bacon as garnish.