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peas again
"Derald" wrote in message ... songbird wrote: snip 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.... snip 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. snip 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. -- 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 |
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