Pease Porridge

A common British dish most people have heard of it but have no idea what it is! 

Pease Porridge hot, 

Pease Porridge cold,

Pease Porridge in the Pot 

Nine Days old.

Well here is a simple recipe sure to take you back to the English countryside. Since this is the month of Thanksgiving, we wanted to show our thanks to a great and steadfast LGBT ally, Morgan Fairchild. We dedicate this simple and hearty dish to her. 

A pease porridge is made from cooking yellow split peas to create a lovely soft paste-like consistency. Cold, leftover pease porridge can also be fried like our corn mush or used as a spread for ham sandwiches. Often this is served alongside what the English refer to as “faggots” or pig testicles. We have decided to forgo that particular delicacy. 

 

Ingredients

• 1 pound yellow split peas
• ½ lbs seasoning ham pieces
• 2 medium-size carrots, peeled and diced
• 2 medium-size onions, peeled and chopped
• 2 shallots peeled and sliced
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
• 1 tablespoon butter or oil
• Salt and pepper to taste
• ½ cup half-and-half non-fat, optional

Preparation

Place peas in a bowl and cover with water to a depth of 2 inches above the peas. Set aside to hydrate for 4 hours or overnight. 

 

Do your cutting. Peel and chop the carrots and onion and slice the shallots

Drain peas and place in a dutch oven on the stovetop. 

 

Add the ham pieces, carrots, onions and shallots and stir to mix well. Cover with a mixture of water and chicken broth to a depth of 1 inch above the mixture. Add the parsley.

Bring the peas to the boil. Once boiling, lower the heat and simmer gently for 2 to 3 hours or until peas lose their shape and start to become creamy. Occasionally skim off any scum that rises to the surface.

Add a little boiling water from time to time if necessary. You should have a thick soup, but not what we think of today as porridge.

Remove the ham with a slotted spoon and drain.

Carefully, with an immersion blender, puree the soup until it reaches desired consistency.

Take the drained ham and fry it in a skillet with oil. Just until it is browned and has a crunch to it.

Now if you wish, add the half & half to make it a bit richer. Adjust with salt and pepper to taste.

Serve garnished with the fried ham bits and a little more parsley. Very lightly sprinkle the top with smoky paprika.

Serving 1/8 of recipe:

Calories 257 Calories from Fat 49 Total Fat 6g Sodium 175mg

Total Carbohydrate 37g

Wow and double Num Num!

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What a kick to serve my Master Indy some Pease Porridge

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To nourish, support and maintain.

To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

to nurture, assist, and sustain

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Morgan Fairchild

Morgan Fairchild (born Patsy Ann McClenny; February 3, 1950) is an American actress and noted LGBT Ally. She began acting in the late 1970s and early 1980s with continuing roles in television series.

As a child, she suffered a bout of scarlet fever, which left her partially deaf. Fairchild's first acting job was as a double for Faye Dunaway during filming for the film Bonnie and Clyde (1967), particularly in scenes where Bonnie is supposed to be driving a car because Dunaway couldn’t drive a stick shift.

She took her new first name, Morgan, from the David Warner film Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966). Fairchild then moved to New York City, where she secured her first credited on-screen role as the maniacal Jennifer Pace in the daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow from 1973 until 1977. She began to make various appearances on primetime television series such as Kojak, Happy Days, Police Woman, and a few episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

Fairchild continued to make appearances in films and television series throughout the 1980s and garnered an Emmy Award nomination for her guest appearance in a 1989 episode of Murphy Brown. In the early The 1990s, she was cast in a recurring role in Roseanne, as Sandra Bernhard's bisexual girlfriend Marla.

In addition to her work as an actress, Fairchild has long maintained a strong role within the Screen Actors Guild, now SAG-AFTRA. Currently, Fairchild is a three-year board member of the Guild and has served on several diverse committees, including co-chair Legislative Committee, National Executive Committee, SAG-AFTRA Relations Committee, Commercials Contracts Committee, Honors and Tributes Committee (HATS), and Guild Governance and Rules Committee.

She’s been connecting with gay people her whole life, even before the bombshell-with-brains went lesbian on “Roseanne.”

You just have to say, “I believe in stepping out and being an iconoclast and breaking barriers and opening up the world for people.”

It’s the reason I took such a very strong stand on AIDS early on. I’m a virus nut, and my hobbies are emerging viruses and epidemiology. So I knew a lot about the virus when Rock Hudson was announced as being sick, and I knew I was the only celebrity they had who could go on “Nightline” and explain what a retrovirus is and how it works and try to take the stigma off the disease and try to get it treated just like a disease and not a “gay disease.” I spent a lot of the ’80s and ’90s doing that.

When I started doing it, everybody told me not to get involved because it was too controversial, but I knew somebody had to – and I was the only famous face they had who could talk knowledgeably about the disease at the time.

I was following AIDS since ’79 or ’80 when it was 13 cluster cases of Kaposi’s sarcoma in New York and didn’t have a name, and it was just these odd anomalies. Then there were 11 cluster cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia in San Francisco and I thought that was odd. These were just little paragraphs in the newspapers, and then it came out that they were all in gay men – and I knew something new was out there.

I lost a ton of people, and a lot of them I tried to warn that there was something new out there. I had warned one friend of mine who was an actor and sort of closeted, though I knew he was gay. I was very concerned about him because I knew he would do drugs and get drunk and party a lot then go home with anybody. At an AIDS fundraiser I was sponsoring in Beverly Hills, he came over to me and he said, “You were the first person I ever heard say the word AIDS, and I wish I had listened.”

Morgan starred in an informational video, "Safe Sex for Men and Women", about AIDS education and prevention. Part of the proceeds went to the American Foundation for AIDS Research. She is a member of the Entertainment Industry's AIDS Task Force. Morgan has spearheaded numerous other fund-raising projects for the disease and she also testified before a special Congressional committee about AIDS education. She is on the Board of Governors of APLA and Board of Directors of Amfar.

Former Surgeon-General C. Everett Koop asked her on occasion to substitute for him at AIDS events and she has hosted an AIDS Awareness Special. She has appeared twice on "Nightline" with Ted Koppell regarding AIDS.

Morgan's other public service efforts have included leading pro-choice marches and rallies and participating in several events to save the California deserts (including an appearance before the U.S. Senate). 

She is a frequent speaker on environmental issues of all kinds and helped found the Environmental Communications Office, which encourages entertainment industry professionals to become better educated and more active on environmental issues.

Morgan is one of the original members and is on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Women's Political Committee, a political action committee that has raised millions for liberal candidates for state and federal office. Whether it's appearing on "Nightline" on AIDS or CBS's "Sixty Minutes" on women's issues or testifying before the Senate on environmental causes, the public has come to respect Morgan as more than just a glamorous star.
She has continually defined what an ally to the community could and should be!