"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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Steve B wrote:
"Derald" wrote in message
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songbird wrote:

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i'll be interested in hearing how long they actually
do last for you.
Well, the hardest part of that will be the remembering, LOL! Don't
expect that to get any easier....
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do people use the dried cowpeas for cooking too
or are they too yucko for that?
Oh, yes. They're sort of bland because they're too mature. Season
them like
any other dried legume or beans 'n rice dish, pretty much. Dried
peas and rice
is called, colloquially, "hoppin' John" and traditionally is eaten
on New Year's
Day to bring luck. Sort of a cracker version of "Moros y
Christianos", a tradional Cuban black beans and rice dish.
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from what i'm seeing of the blackeyed peas harvest
so far they didn't like all the rain we've had lately.
i'm not a huge fan of them anyways so i'll grow a
much smaller plot next year (as a continuing seed
source, to see how they do with a full season and
they'll be up higher so they won't get flooded).
Well, the common blackeye and pinkeye peas from the seed racks are
among the least flavorful of the cowpeas but all of them are at
their best when young.
As they mature they quickly become bland and "starchy". Various
"crowder" and
"conch" varieties are more productive and more flavorful but are
difficult to
find outside the South and becoming more difficult to find down here
as creeping
urbanization kills off the "feed 'n seed" stores that catered to
local agriculture. Online, these guys have about the best selection
of cowpeas (they
call'em "southern peas") that I've found:
http://www.southernexposure.com/index.php.
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Derald
FL USDA zone 9a
http://www.onlineconversion.com/

Sounds like something that should be discussed in a cooking or
nutrition newsgroup to me.

Steve

I don't understand how the growing and eating qualities of pea cultivars
is off topic for rec.gardens.edible or was two sentences about cooking old
peas too much?

David

Just as I don't understand my question about eating corn silk being taken by
some as not relevant to this newsgroup. BTW, my post above is meant to be
taken with a grain of salt. It will give it the proper flavor.............

Steve