End of a roast Ham - pean and ham soup?

[Liskey]

I've got the nd of a roast ham which no one fancies much now after a couple of days of ham sandwichs and was wondering if you can make pea and ham soup out of it? I've never made any pea or ham soup before but i have a feeling that ham bone is involved somewhere in it?

Thanks.

Naaah you dont need a ham bone, well I don't anyway!
I make a quick pea & ham soup regularly - tis my fave

the way I do it is:

Sweat an onion in butter, then add cubed potato, and chicken or veg stock & simmer until almost soft then add cubed chunks of ham and frozen peas and continue simmering until everything is soft.
I keep some of the chunkyness aside, then blitz the rest in a blender, then add the chunkyness back in.
I usually add mint to mine as well (fresh if I have it but if not dried or even mint sauce!) and a bit of cream or full fat milk makes it lovely and creamy.

tis sooo good with warm crusty bread and butter.

I usually make it when I have ham to use up - it's quick and easy and I always have frozen peas in the freezer and onions and potatoes in.
Yum!

Sounds lovely but I haven't any potatoes in - would it work without them? I do have fresh mint growing though.

I've just made this - without potato. I threw in onions (don't bother sweating), pearl barley, split peas, garlic, ham stock (works with chicken or veg stock too), chopped carrots. Simmer for 40 mins or so til barley soft. Add chopped ham and frozen peas, simmer bit more. Use stick blender to purée a little bit for extra 'body'. Cool and freeze in portion sized freezer bags. Yum

sounds lovely - what sort of quantities do you use?

I'll keep the scond recipe for later (as I haven't got pearl barley or split peas in - embasseringly i've never tried them!)

Soup turned out fantastic - thanks for the advice!

Love this with split yellow peas, lovely and thick so don't need potato, works with green split peas too. With fresh or frozen peas is lovely and tastes much lighter.