Southern pea soup with bacon

It is this time of the year again: the days are getting shorter, its getting a little colder and the foliage outside on the ways home is just gorgeous. In these dark fall evenings one feels a little tired and one wants to stay at home and snuggle in front of the fire place. Well, I know we are not completely there yet, but I can see it approaching. So it is time to fill up the shelves with some nice wine for the fall evenings at home, and may be come up with some new recipes for cooking. I love soups in the fall, and hey, what about some cool soup-wine pairings. I actually had a craving for pea soup for quite a while, actually since that nice lady on the CBS morning show,who wrote a book about her mom and who's name I can't really remember, told about her mom's pea soup recipe, or may be it was on NPR? Anyways, I googled a little and went shopping today and bought a Cabernet, a Pinot Noir and a Merlot, and olive oil, red onions, peas, bacon, carots, chicken broth and celery (forgot the garlic :-(). It took me about 30min and the soup was ready and served with a nicely buttered piece of crusty bread.

Just what I needed. I tried it first with the Cabernet, that didn't go too well, the next bowl of soup came with the Pinot Noir, yes, this is a match. I think I am having a weekly soup-wine pairing now! Next will be potato soup, then cauliflower and also broccoli is on my agenda.....

.....but hey, what's this...someone else was interested in my cooking...did it really smell that good?? Looks like, won't you think...