Crop's coming to an end so I picked all my peas and we had the mature peas for dinner.
They're still horrible!
I liked the little ones raw but big 'normal' peas are just like..........frozen peas that I hate. But OH loved them so all is not lost!
My mange tout have gone all 'off' all of a sudden too and the peas starting to do this too, don't know if this is a disease or if yellowing/spottiness/wrinkling of pods just suddenly happens and is just the end of the crop? Odd cos I have loads of mange tout on the plants but they are getting discoloured and no good any more. Oh well off to eat about 30 mature lettuce now.
You have given me a giggle MMM as this is exactly what I'm going to do today. Pick the rest of the peas, although I don't mind them at all, but we also have rather a lot of mature lettuces too. Thank god for chickens.
Sarah.x
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Yes, the pale wrinkly pods are the over mature ones, the stage in between nice peas and dried peas.
I know you probably won't grow peas again, but I would like to say that there is a world of difference in flavour between different varieties of peas. For instance Fortune peas (to me) taste exactly like tinned peas, so maybe try another variety and at least pick them when they're still nice.
Tony
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Tony it's hard to know when they are ready, I kept feeling them for when they stopped 'giving' like you said, then had my cousin here at the weekend so was busy, then the next thing I'm finding yellowing plants and some wrinkly pods - but the peas inside were fine and no different from the peas in non wrinkly pods.
Why are they so hard to shell though - I remember them just popping open when I was a kid but these ones I kept ruining the first pea with my thumbnail.
small knob butter
1 shallot , finely chopped
4 Little Gem lettuces
200ml fresh chicken stock
4 tbsp single cream or crème fraîche
500g petits pois
1. Melt the butter in a large sauté pan with a lid. Fry the onion gently for about 5 mins, until softened. Meanwhile, pull any damaged or coarse outer leaves from the lettuces and trim the bases. Cut the lettuces in half lengthways, through the base.
2. Place the lettuce cut-side up on top of the onions and cook for half a minute, then turn over and cook for another 30 secs. Pour over the stock and lightly season. Put the lid on the pan, reduce the heat to the minimum and cook for 10 mins.
3. With a slotted spoon, lift the lettuces out and put into a sieve over a bowl. Raise the heat under the pan and boil the juices until reduced by half. Add the cream or crème fraîche and petits pois and boil for 1 min until heated through. Arrange lettuces in a serving dish and pour over the pea-and-cream sauce.
There you go, care of Jamie Oliver (I think).
Maggie
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Mandy have you tried them with a little (or a lot ) of mint sauce and big knob of butter, if not throw the old peas to the chooks and be done with it and have some broad beans instead
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Modern humanity has said to Nature, "You are mine."
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so's my wife, her homemade sauce is so thick I call it Mint Syrup but its so popular she gets repeat orders and so I have had to go and buy some seeds to create more beds of the stuff.
A good comfort food is Chopped up sausages and potato(precooked) panfryed in Butter and mint sauce, which of course caramelizes and makes it allo so dreadfully yummy but rather bad on my waist line.
Our remote ancestors said to their mother Earth, "We are yours."
Modern humanity has said to Nature, "You are mine."
The Green Man has returned as the living face of the whole earth so that through his mouth we may say to the universe, "We are one."
the number of veg you dont like MMM - its a wonder you still grow any!
I think you left the peas too long, and to my taste, prolly overcooked too. I pick them small and sweet and cooking is merely getting hot. We put the peas in cold water, bring it to the boil and serve straight away.
peas are also lovely raw in salads etc
but if you dont like them.. you dont like them
Red
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Keaniebean wrote: You have given me a giggle MMM as this is exactly what I'm going to do today. Pick the rest of the peas, although I don't mind them at all, but we also have rather a lot of mature lettuces too. Thank god for chickens.
In Thailand we were served lettuce leaves in BATTER!!! Pretty tasteless and rather a waste of effort but very pretty!!
The cockerel makes the noise, the hen produces the goods!! anon
In Thailand we were served lettuce leaves in BATTER!!! Pretty tasteless and rather a waste of effort but very pretty!! [/quote]
Isn't that a Glaswegian salad?
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And let us be kind
Let us be silly and free
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It won't make us rich
But damn it how happy we'll be!
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But OH loved them so all is not lost! 
Oh well off to eat about 30 mature lettuce now. 
(thanks)
