Saturday, September 25, 2010

Peas!

The girls have been in love with this story lately,

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and I was reading it last night, I realized I haven't blogged PEAS yet. I started the Vegetable of the Week posts, because I had friends ask me how to cook fresh vegetables. My VOW recipes are just super simple, quick ways to get vegetables on the table - nothing elaborate or even worth calling a "recipe."

Well, let me tell you that when I've forgotten to shop for a side dish vegetable, or it's the dead of winter and nothing fresh inspires me, I grab a bag of frozen peas. I have great memories of popping open pea pods, but fresh peas are hard to find sometimes. Fresh is always best, but frozen is second best (canned hardly counts as a vegetable, except in the case of beans). Wasabi peas definitely don't count towards your daily veggies - but yum!!

Anyway, peas are a fabulous source of Vitamin K, Vitamin C, folate, and fiber. Vitamin K is important for bone health.

I love pea soup and pea salad, but mostly peas are just my emergency side dish. I saute some sliced onion in a skillet with a little butter until just soft, then throw in a few handfulls of frozen peas (straight from the freezer) and cook until they are thawed and warm. Add some salt and freshly ground pepper. There. Takes about ten minutes and costs like $1.

The other day I found a $25 pork shoulder on sale for $8 at Kroger, so I grabbed it without really thinking of what else we'd have with it. It was soooo yummy and tender (and I don't usually love pork). Henry loved it too

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Anyway, I just made some rice cooked in vegetable broth and peas with onions, and we had a meal.

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