In Finland it's traditional to eat pea soup every Thursday. Since reading Timothy Ferris' book The 4-Hour Body, I discovered that it's also a fantastic low-carb diet food. According to Ferris, pulses can and should be eaten on a low-carb diet.
If you live in Finland, you can buy this soup in a can, but since I no longer live there (I now live in the Czech Republic), we make this soup ourselves from scratch. It takes a while to make since you need to soak the dried peas over-night and let it boil for several hours, so it's a good idea to make a very large batch while you're at it. You can freeze it if needed - however, we've never needed to do that because the soup is so delicious that we end up eating it all in just a couple of days (it's my husband's favourite dish!).
It's traditionally made with pork, but you can of course leave that out and make a vegetarian/vegan version.
You can find the recipe on-line in English, e.g. here:
http://www.finnguide.fi/finnishrecipes/recipe.asp?c=5&t=0&p=163
Hope you like it!
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