When I was a small dependent child, my lovely mother used to make my lunch almost every day. Often there were wonderful treats in my lunches, including such delights as fresh english peas. We used to eat peas fresh from the pod--delicious! Eating these juicy green peas is one of my favorite childhood sense memories.
But alas, these are rarely to be found in the supermarket--where one can only find sugar snap peas and crap like that. Once a year I can get them at local farmer's markets, which I always do, and I usually eat most of them on the way home.
Well, this year I bought some seeds from Seed Savers and planted those little suckers in my yard, built myself a lame-o trellis, and voila! I am proud and happy to introduce you to my english peas . . . I ate my first ones the other day, and they were delicious! So sweet, right off the vine, amazing.
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The smell of tomato vines always takes me back to my mom's little vegetable garden. Lovely lovely.
Sugar snap peas are good!
Yes, Woz, sugar snap peas are very good. They're just not what I wnat and they fool me all the time at the store--when I see them I get all excited and then, they turn out to be NOT english peas. But you're right, I shouldn't besmirch them.
I didn't know this about you. This is a wonderful bit of information indeed. Especially since I have known your mom. I will now think of you each time I have english peas, which I ask myself, have I ever? They are out there, I must try them.
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