Frank's Ham and Split Pea Soup

Yesterday's soup was my own invention: "Frank's Ham and Split Pea Soup."
Found 7 different recipes and decided to combine them all.  Has a lot of veggies and a real success.
Here is the total list of ingredients:
Dry green split peas
Ham (in freezer from last Thanksgiving)
Celery
Carrots
Onion
1 large potato
Garlic
Chicken stock
Bay leaf
Cayenne pepper
Thyme
Rosemary
Butter
Flour
Sugar
Salt
Black pepper
Decided not to include the Kielbasa nor the ground pork or turkey meat balls from 2 of the recipes.
The ham was good enough.  The others for future experimenting.


The 7 reference recipes were from:
-  2 different Food Club split pea containers.
-  Joy of Cooking (1962) by Rombauer and Becker
-  Taste of Homes Big Book of Soup (2006)
-  500 Soup Recipes by Bridget Jones, Hermes House publishers (2007)
-  Heartland Cookbook
-  Found in our soup recipe folder, notes on it (1995)