Eyeing pods: Hurst Greenshaft
These have been a long time coming. They’re still not ready, of course, but at least the anticipation can begin.
There is nothing – nothing – so delicious as fresh peas. They’re just stupendous; fresh, sweet and irresistible.
I always intend to make complicated salads and soups with them. Dainty morsels drizzled with this and puréed with that. But I never get round to it.
Peas don’t make it as far as a pan. I shell them and scoff them raw, watching TV with Mrs Soilman on the couch. Usually in vast quantities, such that we suffer noisome digestive repercussions.
Ah, summer.
A bit too much information there Soilman 😉
The peas are looking good though – hurrah!
Celia
June 21st, 2009 at 10:18 am
Mine are at about the same stage at the moment. I too love uncooked fresh peas straight from the pod.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:36 pm
As a student I spent an entire summer on a farm testing peas for their tenderness. The farmer had 1500 acres of peas spread over Yorks, Derbys, Notts and Lincs.
It didn’t put me off peas though.
I’ve been looking a pea soup recipes today – I hadn’t realised they’re such a doddle 🙂
June 21st, 2009 at 9:00 pm
PS Happy birthday for yesterday. And if you’re over 40 and they’re not fun anymore, then you’re simply not celebrating them in the right way!
June 21st, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Thanks VP. Finding it hard to celebrate: my inches waistline measurement is trying to keep track with my age and almost succeeding.
June 22nd, 2009 at 6:23 am
We have been harvesting Meteor peas since mid May and they are delicious, but our petits pois, Wavereux, are just starting to fill their pods and I can’t wait for them to be ready.
We almost never manage to cook them either, there has to be an exceptional pea glut for us not to eat them straight from pod, often in front of the TV watching Wimbledrone!
June 25th, 2009 at 5:34 pm