On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:24:03 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Sat 21 Jun 2008 10:08:44a, Melba's Jammin' told us...
>
>> Pics at alt.binaries.food.
>> Study them, please, and tell me what I should be doing (if anything) to
>> trim them before I cook them. Do I remove the tendrils? The hollow
>> stem appears to be young. Maybe.
>>
>> I await your counsel.

No trimming needed. Yours look especially young.

>
>Unfortunately, I have never even heard of "pea tips". I have no idea, but I
>am curious.

They are called pea "shoots" in this neck of the woods.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci..._15007,00.html
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/fo...OT-SALAD-12059

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/fo...EA-PUREE-14092

I'd go with the last one. I ordered a wonderful pasta dish tonight
that had green peas, fava beans, roasted garlic and spinach mixed with
parmesan and a very thin noodle that was not quite 1/2 inch wide. If
they'd put pea shoots in there, I wouldn't have objected.


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