Re: Fall vegetables

I plant snow peas at all times of the year just for the shoots--even when the hardlygrow at all they're delicious as a raw salad with just a dash of vinegar. When bigger they're great briefly sauteed and dressed with a dash of lemon and oliveoil (in Greece) or stirfried with slivers of garlic (Chinese). Most Chinese ewstaurants in the States serve them these days. Also delicious, and common here in Corfu, are sweet potato greens--sauteed and dressed with lemon and olive oil. Very young shoots are eaten raw as a salad. 

Cali Doxiadis
Corfu Greece
----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Whitehead" <voltaire@islandnet.com> 
To: "medit-plants" <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 1:45 AM
Subject: Re: Fall vegetables




 yarrow@sfo.com wrote:
It's getting a little late for peas, and here the birds will eat any pea greens they can get, - 
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I tried planting late peas without much success as most years it would take too long for the peas to mature enough to eat. Sugar peas are more useful as a late crop because all one needs are the pods - no need to wait for the peas inside to fatten up.
Now I have discovered something new - something your birds know - you can eat pea shoots, the tops of the plants. I searched Google Images for "pea shoots" and found lots of photos and instructions for cooking. I think I'll try a few seeds this year - perhaps I should start them growing inside first and then plant them out when the seeds sprout. 


Diane Whitehead
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8, cool Mediterranean climate
mild rainy winters, mild dry summers



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