Split Pea Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pkg. green split peas
2 bay leaves
salt and pepper to taste
1 ham hock (or hot dogs)
4 diced carrots
4 diced potatoes

Preparation

Peas must be soaked overnight.
In a soup pot, put in peas and 6 cups of water.
Add bay leaves and salt and pepper to taste. Add in ham hock.
Simmer for an hour and a half.
Scoop out ham hock (discard).
Put peas (a few cups at a time) in a blender to puree.
Return soup to the pot and add carrots and potatoes (and hot dogs if you did not use a ham hock).
Add water, if soup is too thick.