First Harvest on Peas

I love crowder peas! We planted Pinkeyes last year, and they're good. They're easy to pick because they tell you when they're ready (their hulls turn purple), and they taste a bit like black eyes.

But crowder peas... they're delicious! They turn a dark red when cooked, and they produce a dark burgundy to brown pot liquor that's to die for.

 

So we brought in several hand fulls of peas. Some weren't all the way "ready" but with crowders it's harder to tell. The smart thing to do is probably to blanch and freeze them and wait til another mess comes off the vines. But what I want to do? I want to eat 'em. 

We're gonna have peas and cornbread, and I guarantee you, it will be delicious! 

 

 Dad's got deer meat in the freezer, add some squash and zucchini from the garden, along with crowder peas and fresh cornbread, some sauteed sweet potato in browned butter, and some rice with au gus gravy... So excited!