Pics at alt.binaries.food.
Study them, please, and tell me what I should be doing (if anything) to
trim them before I cook them. Do I remove the tendrils? The hollow
stem appears to be young. Maybe.

I await your counsel.
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-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Huffy and Bubbles Do France: http://www.jamlady.eboard.com

"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> Pics at alt.binaries.food.
> Study them, please, and tell me what I should be doing (if anything) to
> trim them before I cook them. Do I remove the tendrils? The hollow
> stem appears to be young. Maybe.
>
> I await your counsel.
> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
> Huffy and Bubbles Do France: http://www.jamlady.eboard.com

Is this what you are talking about?

http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eating...reens_pea.html


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Old Scoundrel

(AKA Dimitri)

In article >,
"Dimitri" > wrote:

> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Pics at alt.binaries.food.
> > Study them, please, and tell me what I should be doing (if anything) to
> > trim them before I cook them. Do I remove the tendrils? The hollow
> > stem appears to be young. Maybe.
> >
> > I await your counsel.
> > --
> > -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
> > Huffy and Bubbles Do France: http://www.jamlady.eboard.com
>
> Is this what you are talking about?
>
> http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eating...reens_pea.html


Not ezzackly. Like this. And I'm going to do it her way, I think.
I've already plucked the leaves from the stems and they're in the fridge
awaiting my pleasure.
http://www.winterjade.com/delectatio...es/000048.html
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Huffy and Bubbles Do France: http://www.jamlady.eboard.com

On Sat 21 Jun 2008 10:08:44a, Melba's Jammin' told us...

> Pics at alt.binaries.food.
> Study them, please, and tell me what I should be doing (if anything) to
> trim them before I cook them. Do I remove the tendrils? The hollow
> stem appears to be young. Maybe.
>
> I await your counsel.

Unfortunately, I have never even heard of "pea tips". I have no idea, but I
am curious.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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In article >,
Melba's Jammin' > wrote:

> Pics at alt.binaries.food.
> Study them, please, and tell me what I should be doing (if anything) to
> trim them before I cook them. Do I remove the tendrils? The hollow
> stem appears to be young. Maybe.

I plucked and fried up only the leaves. I cooked a fat clove of chopped
garlic in some oil, dumped the pea leaves in and watched while they
cooked down FAST. My full pan was just enough for two. I dribbled a
little oyster sauce over them in the pan and stirred it up. They were
good. I still have some for another (small) serving.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Huffy and Bubbles Do France: http://www.jamlady.eboard.com

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:14:48 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>In article >,
> Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
>
>> Pics at alt.binaries.food.
>> Study them, please, and tell me what I should be doing (if anything) to
>> trim them before I cook them. Do I remove the tendrils? The hollow
>> stem appears to be young. Maybe.
>
>I plucked and fried up only the leaves. I cooked a fat clove of chopped
>garlic in some oil, dumped the pea leaves in and watched while they
>cooked down FAST. My full pan was just enough for two. I dribbled a
>little oyster sauce over them in the pan and stirred it up. They were
>good. I still have some for another (small) serving.


I am eating a lot of young greens this year. We've blown through the
first harvest of dwarf pak choi and planted some more (they get picked
at 2" tall) and tonight we had some garlic scapes. I have a mess o'
spinach about to be picked and some young broccoli leaves are looking
good, so I just may stir fry those tomorrow.

Boron

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:24:03 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Sat 21 Jun 2008 10:08:44a, Melba's Jammin' told us...
>
>> Pics at alt.binaries.food.
>> Study them, please, and tell me what I should be doing (if anything) to
>> trim them before I cook them. Do I remove the tendrils? The hollow
>> stem appears to be young. Maybe.
>>
>> I await your counsel.

No trimming needed. Yours look especially young.

>
>Unfortunately, I have never even heard of "pea tips". I have no idea, but I
>am curious.

They are called pea "shoots" in this neck of the woods.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci..._15007,00.html
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/fo...OT-SALAD-12059

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/fo...EA-PUREE-14092

I'd go with the last one. I ordered a wonderful pasta dish tonight
that had green peas, fava beans, roasted garlic and spinach mixed with
parmesan and a very thin noodle that was not quite 1/2 inch wide. If
they'd put pea shoots in there, I wouldn't have objected.


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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West