Eager for snap peas
Posted on June 15th, 2009 – 10:34 AMBy Jaime Chismar
In less than a week, my snap peas have gone from this:
To this:
It takes a lot of will power not devour these tiny treats before they are full size. If I can’t eat them now, I can at least think about how to cook them.
How do you like your snap peas? Straight off the vine? Stir-fried with a little garlic and olive oil?
17 Responses to "Eager for snap peas"
My mom used to send me out to pick a colander-full for dinner. I’d nibble as I picked, so I wouldn’t be in the mood for steamed peas with dinner.
I can’t help but eat while picking. They taste like candy when right off the vine.
I remember green peas from the garden from my childhood. I never got any out of MY garden as the daughter sat and ate every pea IN the garden. Now I know why she was never in the mood for peas for dinner! She also ate every snow pea, pod and all as soon as they were big enough to find. I raised a pea pig.
I too am guilty of super snap pea snacking. The BF maybe gets a handful of snap peas every year 
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Color me “pea green” with jealousy.
I’ve lost track of how many pea and bean seeds I’ve planted this year. Nearly as soon as they sprout, the bunnies hop right in to help themselves to their very own salad bar.
Yes, I know I should get chicken wire to keep them out. But the bunnies are just so cute… even as I mutter “hassenpfeffer” under my breath.
The deer like the pea pods also. They put their noses thru the bird netting.
If any make it to the kitchen, my favorite method of preparation is a pan-full (throw in beans too; they go well together) in a couple of tablespoons of butter. Squeeze in half a lemon, dash with kosher salt, and just cook on one side just until it turns a wee bit brown on the cooked side; should only take a minute. The top side will be bright nuclear fallout spilled uranium green. Half steamed, half pan-fried. Perfect combination.
YUM! Those sound marvy.
Lyn, I planted my snap peas in a wine barrel on my patio. My beans are totally getting a beating in my raised beds.
What gorgeous photos. Vegetables really can be as stunning as ornamental plants. Makes me wish my front yard was planted out in THAT. To say nothing of the eating…
I have never brought peas into the house. Since I was a kid, I have always eaten them in the garden. Even at the height of pea season, if we wanted to cook peas, we would have to buy some. And, when I got back from the store, I would stop by the garden to see if there were any more peas to eat.
Thanks MNmom! My little point-and-shoot is always at the ready.
Other side of the river: I wonder why snap peas taste sweeter out of your own garden? The ones that I buy at the farmers market are always woody.
Fresh peas…snow peas! Best fried in button on both sides until slightly puffy, then a dash of garlic salt. Oh yum, I can’t wait!!
jamie, when did you plant your peas? mine have only just started to blossom and i’m impatiently awaiting delicious sugar snap peas directly off the vine. my trouble is that they never make it into the house to get cooked. i’ve planted more and more every year and i just keep eating them all in the garden.
I have always assumed the sugar snap peas would never make it into the house. Same with many of the cherry tomatos, and even the occasional carrot rinsed at the hose… They are all too good to wait!
The only cherry tomatoes that make it from the garden to my house are the green ones we rescue in the fall when we don’t want to (or can’t) protect the plants from frost any longer.
Check out the Snap Pea, Mint and Radish salad recipe in the NY Times! Wow!
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