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Hearty Vegan Split Pea Soup
Step 1
Fill a Dutch Oven or heavy pot with 8 cups of water. Pour in 2 cups of dried split peas. Turn the heat to high and let come to a boil. Once it starts to boil, turn down to simmer and skim the top of all white foam. Turn to simmer at this point.
Vegan White Bean Soup
Along with Split Pea Soup, White Bean Soup is one of the standard recipes I make when I have company for dinner. Just because we live in Florida doesn’t mean we forego the goodness of soups. Besides, sometimes when the weather is hot, a light meal sits better than something heavy anyway, and a great soup and salad fills that bill.
Sometimes I make cold soups, such as this wonderful Cucumber Soup, but most times I just serve hot soups, no matter.
Fresh, Colorful Gazpacho Salad
Gazpacho Salad generally here in the US is just that, a salad, not a soup which seems to be the tradition in Spain. It is fresh and colorful. It’s one of those great, make-ahead salads. There are many different versions of this classic standby.
The traditional gazpacho salad seems to have tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and garlic. Yet, there are some versions with bread and no tomatoes and others with almonds and no bread. However you decide to make your salad, cold, fresh ingredients should make your dish a hit.
Three Bean Salad Recipe – Number Four
Three Bean Salad Recipe – Number Three
Ancient Three Bean Salad Recipe
This Three Bean Salad Recipe is as old as the hills. My recipe card says 1970. I received this from an old friend, Fran Riley when we lived across the street from each other in Chicago.
We loved this recipe then and didn’t even know it was vegan. It seemed to be a main-stay at every get-together and then somehow fell out of favor and you didn’t much see it anymore.