3 old fashioned homemade soup Recipes

oil (corn, canola, or olive), onion, finely chopped, carrots , cut in half lengthwise and sliced 1/2 inch thick, rib celery, finely chopped, dried split peas , picked over and rinsed, defatted chicken broth or 4 cups vegetable broth, preferably homemade, cold water, salt, freshly ground black pepper

whole chickens, quartered or 4 bone-in chicken breasts, chicken broth (i make mine from better than bouillon chicken base), vidalia onion, chopped, garlic cloves, finely chopped, celery, chopped, black pepper, freshly ground, wide egg noodles , old fashioned, thyme, rosemary, crushed red pepper flakes, cayenne pepper