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[pantryslut]

In the box this week: cowpeas.

For those of you who don't know (I didn't), cowpeas are small round shelling beans. They need to be lightly cooked.

In the pods, they look like lumpy green beans.

How to eat, do you think?

Comments

[sciamanna.livejournal.com]

Sorry, no suggestion for cooking fresh cowpeas: I never met them in their natural state. Only the observation that the Chinese make wonderful pickles with them, that taste like jasmine tea with chillies. Mmmm... now I'm hungry! :-)

[sphinxie.livejournal.com]

Hi, just happened to see your question on my friendsfriends' list. In the South we call those black eyed peas, and there are lots of good recipes on Google for them. Here's one. (http://southernfood.about.com/library/rec98/bl81231e.htm) (Ignore the bit about the pig's foot which is a little too rustic to contemplate, even for a daughter of the South.)

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

These aren't exactly black-eyed peas -- smaller, a different color -- but they're clearly related, and I bet I can substitute with impunity. Thanks for the link!