Derald wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

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?
Growing them and cooking them do seem complementary but, hey, playing
topic police may be the high point of his day and if that's all it
takes to make little stevie feel useful, well, let him have at it,
say I. I'm grateful to have contributed to another's sense of self
worth. Truth is, I had thought to suggest that perhaps the thread had
drifted a bit but Nanny beat me to it.
Are "southern peas" , AKA cowpeas, cultivated in your neck of the
woods?

Yes, they are usually used as stock feed and/or green manure not human food.
We miss out on a number of cuisines and types of ingredients that are common
in the USA. I dare say the converse is also true. There is no customary
way to cook cowpeas so either you have to go it alone from recipe books or
pay big money in a big city restaurant where some chef has 'discovered' some
cuisine that uses them.

Oz has undergone a food revolution in the last 50 years and there is no sign
of it abating. Some vegetables such as okra have gone through an adoption
process and are now not so rare here, so you can get them in better grocers
and ordinary people like me grow them. Okra appears to have originated from
Africa and arrived in the US with the slave trade. I guess cowpeas did the
same. So maybe we will be eating cowpeas in years to come.

I haven't taken time to play with them as I don't especially need a legume
to improve my soil and many legumes (eg standard peas , broad beans etc) use
up resources to grow large amounts of greenery for a small edible crop and
they take time to prepare. I don't find the calories available or the
flavour worth the trouble in many cases. If I am wrong about the wonderous
taste of cowpeas tell me about it.


David

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
...
Derald wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

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?
Growing them and cooking them do seem complementary but, hey, playing
topic police may be the high point of his day and if that's all it
takes to make little stevie feel useful, well, let him have at it,
say I. I'm grateful to have contributed to another's sense of self
worth. Truth is, I had thought to suggest that perhaps the thread had
drifted a bit but Nanny beat me to it.
Are "southern peas" , AKA cowpeas, cultivated in your neck of the
woods?

Yes, they are usually used as stock feed and/or green manure not human
food. We miss out on a number of cuisines and types of ingredients that
are common in the USA. I dare say the converse is also true. There is no
customary way to cook cowpeas so either you have to go it alone from
recipe books or pay big money in a big city restaurant where some chef has
'discovered' some cuisine that uses them.

Oz has undergone a food revolution in the last 50 years and there is no
sign of it abating. Some vegetables such as okra have gone through an
adoption process and are now not so rare here, so you can get them in
better grocers and ordinary people like me grow them. Okra appears to
have originated from Africa and arrived in the US with the slave trade. I
guess cowpeas did the same. So maybe we will be eating cowpeas in years
to come.


You assume correctly, both okra and cowpeas came from the slave trade.
Gardenders in OZ should consider trying them as both are drought tolerant
and can produce large crops with a minimum of water.

I haven't taken time to play with them as I don't especially need a legume
to improve my soil and many legumes (eg standard peas , broad beans etc)
use up resources to grow large amounts of greenery for a small edible crop
and they take time to prepare. I don't find the calories available or the
flavour worth the trouble in many cases. If I am wrong about the
wonderous taste of cowpeas tell me about it.


David

Steve Peek wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
...
Derald wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

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?
Growing them and cooking them do seem complementary but, hey,
playing topic police may be the high point of his day and if that's
all it takes to make little stevie feel useful, well, let him have
at it, say I. I'm grateful to have contributed to another's sense
of self worth. Truth is, I had thought to suggest that perhaps the
thread had drifted a bit but Nanny beat me to it.
Are "southern peas" , AKA cowpeas, cultivated in your neck of the
woods?

Yes, they are usually used as stock feed and/or green manure not
human food. We miss out on a number of cuisines and types of
ingredients that are common in the USA. I dare say the converse is
also true. There is no customary way to cook cowpeas so either you
have to go it alone from recipe books or pay big money in a big city
restaurant where some chef has 'discovered' some cuisine that uses
them. Oz has undergone a food revolution in the last 50 years and there
is
no sign of it abating. Some vegetables such as okra have gone
through an adoption process and are now not so rare here, so you can
get them in better grocers and ordinary people like me grow them. Okra
appears to have originated from Africa and arrived in the US
with the slave trade. I guess cowpeas did the same. So maybe we
will be eating cowpeas in years to come.


You assume correctly, both okra and cowpeas came from the slave trade.
Gardenders in OZ should consider trying them as both are drought
tolerant and can produce large crops with a minimum of water.


Cowpeas are used in pastures for those reasons but we don't have the custom
of eating them. Okra may be drought tolerant but if you want good fruit for
the table you had better water it. I looove okra.

D

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Derald wrote:

Great God Almighty, I've misspelled "Vegemite"! I'll swear, only an American
would misspell vegemite....

An embarrassment to single malt drinkers everywhere.
--
- Billy
Both the House and Senate budget plan would have cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy.

Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for
elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans
"appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of
waste, fraud and abuse."
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re
p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/

[W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And it's not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. That's hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they don't get away with no taxation.
- Ralph Nader
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis