On Aug 19, 5:52�pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
> > ChattyCathy wrote:
> >>http://www.recfoodcooking.com
>
> > I swear this is strictly a coincidence ... I rearranged my freezer a
> > couple of days ago. �I try to keep it kind of
> > organized with vegetables in one bin, meat in another, but as time goes
> > by things get messy.
>
> > This is when I realized I can stop buying frozen peas for
> > some weeks to come, �It's about all I have by way of
> > frozen vegetables, bags of frozen peas.
> > It's to be expected, I guess, since it's one of the only
> > vegetables I don't buy fresh from farmer's markets and
> > road stands this time of the year.
>
> > I voted love fresh and frozen peas. �Canning is an awful
> > thing to do to them.
>
> I confess to actually liking canned peas. IMO opinion they taste more
> like fresh peas than the frozen kind do, but they don't have the
> texture. �I rarely buy fresh peas because they are so expensive. �It
> costs $2-3 for a quart basket of them and after 15 minutes of shelling
> you have enough peas for two people to have or or two forkfuls of them.

There's probably no other vegetable so easy to grow as peas... and
that includes snow peas and sugar peas... and no other so good as
fresh picked.