SOUP BONE SOUP RECIPES

Steps:

• Sort peas and rinse with cold water. Place peas in a Dutch oven; add water to cover by 2 in. Bring to a boil; boil for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; cover and let stand for 1 to 4 hours or until peas are softened. Drain and rinse peas, discarding liquid., Return peas to Dutch oven. Add 2-1/2 qts. water, ham bone, onion, salt, pepper, thyme and bay leaf. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1-1/2 hours, stirring occasionally., Remove the ham bone; when cool enough to handle, remove meat from bone. Discard bone; dice meat and return to soup. Add carrot and celery. Simmer, uncovered, for 45-60 minutes or until soup reaches desired thickness and vegetables are tender. Discard bay leaf.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350. wash and put bones on a cooking sheet. Put in oven. Bake about 1 hour. Keep an eye on them, you don't want to burn them. Just brown them, and any meat on the bones will be cooked.
• Take bones out of oven. Add bones to a crock pot with a 1-1/2 quarts of water. Cook for 2-3 hours on medium. This will get all the flavor out of the bones!
• Strain cooked broth. Cut any meat off the bones. Put broth and meat in the crockpot.
• Prepare your choice of fresh vegetables. PLEASE, no canned veggis!
• Remove tomato skins. Dipping them in boiling water will do the trick, remove and cool.
• Chop up the tomatoes, and get ride of seeds along with the skins. Add to pot .
• Soup ready to serve. ENJOY the pure flavor!!!! I do hope you will like it.
• do not give cooked bones to dogs.... they could splinter, when cooked. it will hurt or kill a dog. a dog [put in the garbage)