Two Chefs, A Little Lady and Liam Bruce: Leftover ham...ham and lentil soup with roasted sweet potato

There's nothing like a leftover ham bone; but what else can you make with it besides split pea soup? That was what I wanted to find out.

I got my massive pot out and started to heat it up with some grapeseed oil.

I sautéed the leftover ham bone with 3 diced onions and the same amount of chopped celery. Once the onion and celery were soft I added in two cups of dry lentils, two packages of dry onion soup mix, 24 cups of water and two large cans of crushed tomatoes.

I added in quite a bit of salt and let this simmer for an hour.

I diced up the remaining ham from off the bone and set that aside.

Meanwhile I thought the soup needed something extra so I peeled a large sweet potato and diced it up. I generously coated this with grape seed oil, salt, pepper, ground ginger and ground curry powder. I baked this at 375F for 1/2 hour; I wanted them fork tender but not mushy.

I then added in the diced ham and roasted sweet potato.

The lentils got tender and thickened the soup nicely.

I continued to let the soup simmer and developed flavour.

What is soup without a biscuit? I made a traditional baking powder biscuit; I thought the buttery flavour with pair perfectly with the intensly flavourful soup.

Right before I served the soup I removed the ham bone from the soup and picked the rest of the meat off of it (I did not realize how much meat was left on it!)

This was a hit.

Liam liked the soup but he LOVED the biscuits!

So my birthday week has officially begun and the presents started to roll in. I love my friends; I am so blessed.

I sterilized the jars so I could "can" the remainder of the soup; I had a little left over to share!

Our little fashionista!

I also made the chocolate zucchini muffins from my own blog. That was funny; I often go to my own blog to find recipes I like. I should really get this printed off! I was letting the muffins cool on the table...