3 danish pea soup with Recipes

yellow split peas, washed (and drained ), lean bacon (in 1 piece) or 2 lbs smoked pork butt (in 1 piece), carrots, scraped, celery root, peeled & 1/4-ed, leeks, white parts (use white parts of leeks only, cleaned and washed), onions, peeled & halved, dried thyme, salt, pepper, pork sausage link (cook and drain sausage links)

yellow split peas, water, salt, bacon, chopped, stalks celery, chopped, leeks, chopped, carrots, peeled & chopped, potatoes, peeled & chopped, onion, chopped, smoked ham hock, vienna sausages, chopped, salt and pepper