Guatemalan Soup

In the back of my Costco there is a giant refrigerated room. It's really cold in there. I found a 2.5 pound bag of shucked English peas there the other day. They were from Guatemala. I made soup out of it. I cobbled together my own recipe with pointers from Michael Chiarello, Ina Garten and Alice Waters.



This is a steaming bowl of chicken stock, English peas, mint, heavy cream, salt, pepper, onions and Yukon potatoes. It was delicious and I felt pretty healthy eating it. There was only a touch of heavy cream! The soup also gave me an opportunity to use my immersion blender which has been sitting in storage since I moved. It also came together in under 20 minutes. I'm starting to love soups because you can throw so much into it and it'll come out tasty (as long as you know SOMETHING about cooking). White people like salads and casseroles to clean out the fridge. I like soup.