Becca beat me to the mac and cheese.

I'll suggest split pea soup - I make it with a ham hock, but you might be able to use a liquid smoke flavor to give it the ham/smoke flavor it needs. And I would brown the onions, carrots, celery and garlic before adding the peas and water, to give them a caramelized flavor.

Carrots, celery, onion, garlic, split peas, water. I never measure. The bag of peas is a couple of cups and I usually add 3 carrots, 3 celery stalks (both cut up), an onion and a couple of cloves of garlic. Salt and pepper to taste. Enough water to simmer the whole batch to a slurry and then I puree it. We discussed this on facebook yesterday and there were a couple of suggestions to add some thyme.

SRS