Growing Appetite

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Boe

Brenda

Les

Valria

So the peas are done for the first half of the season. The pea pods now over sized and no longer sweet.
I pulled the plants today, shelling the rest of the peas right in the garden. This just makes it easier to get the shells into the compost.

The peas are still sweet and I pulled some of the new potatoes from the overwintered plot. For lunch I made peas and new potatoes, a dish my grandmother made every summer after having us girls pick and shuck the peas. Its a great dish throughout the pea season and not just when your pulling them. The fall peas go in around Labor Day, must be why Thanksgiving makes me think of this dish also.

So here’s what you need, the quantity of each is personal taste:

Fresh shucked peas
Small or cut freshly dug potatoes
Cream
Butter
Onion
Pepper

I don’t remember my grandmothers recipe so here is what I did.

After cleaning all the garden dirt off of the potatoes and cutting some of them in half. I boiled the potatoes in water for a minute or two because I didn’t know how long they would take. I think I could have skipped this part.

I sauteed the onion in a little butter and then added in the potatoes and peas, added the cream and brought it up to a light boil and cooked the potatoes until done and the cream thickened up and peppered to taste. Yummy.