I tend to sow peas thickly, to ensure I’ll have plenty of pea shoots for an early spring harvest. Pea shoots are a delicacy like nothing else I know, the culinary equivalent of accidentally stumbling upon Osama Bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, then killing him with a frying pan and collecting a huge secret reward from the American government, who go on to say it was them who killed him and no, no you can’t see the pictures. Roughly one month after sowing, I thin the plants by harvesting some of them with scissors, giving the lucky survivors room to spread their roots and grow. Mine is not a culinary blog, so I will not go into great detail regarding my methods of pea shoot preparation, though I will say they involve a cast-iron wok, peanut oil heated to a very high temperature, and a minimal amount of time. I will not post any pictures of the finished dish.
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I like them on an eggs benedict with mushrooms. mmmmmm. Uncooked
We eat them in salads, raw. Yum! Loic likes them too and had them in his hair last night after dinner…
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Hey Ryan n Jessica, why are you calling your seed company Valdez Seeds? Something to do with intrepidly exploring the food potential of coastal soil? And Ryan do you realize that posting a strategically-titled culinary post will bring thousands of new and unsuspecting readers to your site (because the best way to a googler’s heart is through their stomach)? The secret to food-photography is the garnish, I say.
I agree with Cheryl!
I could start posting things about cooking, but I don’t think I will. This blog is mostly about things that live outdoors, and I don’t think I have much new material to add to the food blog genre. There are lots of blogs bursting at the seams with pictures of fancy-pants cooking, but relatively few with lots of food plant images.