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Green Pea Salad....Recyled!

Born of a five day power outage last winter when everything in my freezer defrosted including a big bag of green peas. Pea salad! I was getting real tired of eating it when the electricity came back on. So I threw it in the blender and voila! recycled inot pease porridge cold.

Recipe

1 32 ounce bag of frozen peas, thawed, not cooked
1 cup celery, finely diced
1 red onion, finely diced
1 cup midget dill pickles, small diced
1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, small cubed

Combine all these in a bowl and add

Non Fat Dressing

2 8 ounce cups of non fat yogurt
1/2 cup fresh dill, finely cut
1 lemon - scrape zest, squeeze the juice, and add
Salt and pepper to taste

To serve put the pea salad into romaine leaf canoes. Enjoy! And the RECYCLE it into soup. Pease porridge in the pot nine days old.

At the ratio fo 2 cups of pea salad to 1 cup of canned low sodium chicken broth, puree it in the blender. Add romaine leaves after cutting off the white ends. Decorate with a sprig of fresh dill and a dollop of yogurt if desired. And because some DO like it hot, you can warm this but do not boil.