I came back from Baltimore to find my garden beds bursting with snow peas and sugar snaps.
My favorite way to eat peas is raw — crisp and sweet.
My vines are so loaded, I have more than enough for a few pea recipes this week. Three recipes that caught my eye: snow peas with leeks and herbs, Israeli couscous with asparagus, peas and sugar snaps, snow pea salad. Yum!
June likes snacking on snow peas and sugar snaps too.
It seems that most snow pea and sugar snap recipes are for salads, pastas and Asian flavors.
We decided to do something a little differently the other night…
…by adding them to pizza. Pizza? you ask. Hey, if you can accept pineapple on a pizza, can accept snow peas. And what doesn’t taste great on pizza? (Besides cut-up hot dog.)
I concocted a fresh, reasonably healthy pizza that was easy to prepare (i.e. I didn’t have to run to the grocery store for ingredients.)
To prepare, saute 1 chopped tomato, 3/4 cup chopped snow peas and/0r sugar snaps and 1/2 chopped onion in olive oil over medium high heat until soft, about 5 minutes. Scatter the ingredients on top of one rolled out pizza dough. Add a handful of chopped fresh mint leaves and lots of crumbly feta cheese. Bake in 500 degree oven for 7 minutes, or until edges are golden brown.
It was delicious, reasonably healthy and made with ingredients I already had on hand. And it didn’t make the tiniest dent in my snow pea surplus.
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When I was in Ireland they were topping their pizzas with long, thin slices of raw potato and cooking it. After that, I decided who need needs to be traditional with pizza?
mmm! that sounds tasty.
Everybodly laughs at me when I tell them we ate hot dog pizza growing up. My mom would make dough from a box (Jiffy brand maybe?) and add whatever leftovers we had around. She’d put it in an 8×8 pan and tell us it was deep dish pizza.True story!
Okay, I can accept hot dog on pizza for kids….grown-ups, that’s another story.
Yum! Our sugar snaps are coming into full production right now too. I’m going to make a yummy potato salad with hard boiled egg, pecans and sliced sugar snaps. I can’t wait!
What a gift your giving to your daughter of homegrown food full of vitamins, minerals and nutrients.
Your peas are beautiful. Snow peas and sugar snap peas are two of my favorite veggies.
whoa, whoa, whoa. Haven’t you ever heard of a Coney Island slice? Pizza (red sauce and mozz) with cut up hot dogs (YUM) and then yellow mustard squirted on after baking. It’s awesome.
Um. No. But it DOES sound compelling. Photographic evidence required.
LOVE that first picture of June …with her face sideways…Awesome!