I am excited!
Those are my peas sprouting from the ground!
If you read this blog regularly (and a big smooch, if you do), I have a food memory of peas that I’m trying to recreate this year.
I was probably eight or nine and at our friends’ farm in rural Wisconsin. It was summertime and the four of us kids would hang by the pea vines and eat ourselves into oblivion.
If you’ve never had a pea freshly shucked from its shell straight off the vine, you haven’t tasted the sweetest veg ever.
If you’re wondering if peas are good for you, I can assure you, they are! Peas are legumes and filled with vitamins, nutrients and fiber. They have lots of Vitamin K (good for your bones and your blood), folic acid, lots of the B vitamins (good for energy!) and Vitamin C to protect you from those free radicals. But you really don’t need to know the specifics to enjoy them and be healthy.
Cross your fingers that I can get them to thrive and feed that little eight-year-old girl inside that’s yelling, “Peas please!”
Photo Credits:
1. 3 generations shuck peas, 2. Perfect Snap Peas, 3. Crum Family Farm sugar snaps, 4. pea pickin here
