When did you last have fresh peas straight from the pod and eat them like sweets/lollies/candy? Well for me the answer (before a few days ago) was many years ago - perhaps even as long ago as my youth because I don't think we ever grew proper peas on Lewis and the other things of that ilk that we tried were usually destroyed by the wind almost at birth. I love them. Why I have never bought them I have no idea. Wendy gave me some a few days ago and I thoroughly enjoyed them. There were none left to cook.
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My son put a few in our vege patch this year - you have reminded me to go and see how far off they are eating! yum
ReplyDeleteLove fresh peas in the pod. Why bother cooking them when they are so fresh and sweet?
ReplyDeleteThis summer for us. We actually planted sugar snap peas that you are supposed to eat whole (I either stir fry or I have a tuna pasta recipe that works well). Anyway the plants were so productive that we didn't eat them all when they were small enough to eat. In the end we picked the larger ones and shelled them. They were wonderful fresh from the pod are boiled for a few minutes.
ReplyDeleteThen again before this summer I'd guess at maybe 15 to 20 years since I last shelled peas!
Peas on Earth.
ReplyDeleteOnce or twice I grew peas on my balcony, not where I live now but before that. Not many but I got a few. Never taste better than when you pick them fresh :)
ReplyDeleteThey are delicious.
ReplyDeleteI also make a fresh pea soup. Recipe is in Anjum Anand's book Eat Right for your Body Type.
I really enjoy the process of shelling the fresh peas before I make the soup - it's a very satisfying thing to do.
One of my favourite walks takes me through our local Abbaye's gardens...they grow splendid peas and I snaffle a few as I walk.
ReplyDeleteHow low is that? pinching peas from the monks!
SP
Yum Graham! The kids and I adore them straight from the pod. Cannot wait til the "pea season" begins again...
ReplyDeleteFiona my double life doesn't really suit growing vegetables which is a shame. I had such plans...
ReplyDeletePauline after this experience I agree. They won't be my last that's for sure.
Kay. How very punny!
Monica you are so right.
Chloe. I make pea soup too with mint but I've always used frozen peas.
SP. The monks' predecessors probably pinched the land in the first place anyway.
Yvonne if you can actually get a modern child to split a pod you are a genius. Actually working to achieve a result seems alien to so many children now. Or am I being overly cynical?
The last ones I had straight from the pod were eaten on the island Bornholm, off the southern coast of Sweden (but belonging to Denmark), where my aunt grew them in her vegetable garden. I was 13 then, so this was the year 1981.
ReplyDeleteI too love fresh peas but after I discovered a whole pod of peas with wriggly things in it, I have opted for Birds Eye Frozen - at least if there were any little strangers in there they would be frozen dead!!
ReplyDeleteBy the way Graham - I notice that your cold frame - that you had such high expectations for - is still sitting waiting! Perhaps this summer.......... x
This summer for us. We actually planted sugar snap peas that you are supposed to eat whole (I either stir fry or I have a tuna pasta recipe that works well). Anyway the plants were so productive that we didn't eat them all when they were small enough to eat. In the end we picked the larger ones and shelled them. They were wonderful fresh from the pod are boiled for a few minutes.
ReplyDeleteThen again before this summer I'd guess at maybe 15 to 20 years since I last shelled peas!