Field peas – Page 2

notes about field peas

July 25, 2014

This week’s box left me in a quandary (which is not why I’m late). Talk about tomatoes? Corn? Melons? Blueberries? Okra? Pinkeye peas? And just what is the difference between pinkeye peas and all those similar varieties like blackeye peas and lady peas and crowder peas … all variously known as southern peas, field peas…
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Field Pea Hummus

July 25, 2014

Also at the Morningside market this summer, Robert Gerstenecker of Park 75 made this yummy hummus with pink-eye peas. Yes, those any of those field peas will make delicious hummus, and it’s just too easy. If you’ve run out of ideas for your weekly bag of crowder peas, give this a try.