Up here it's normal to have mushy peas with your Sunday Roast. I was surprised to find mushy peas on offer at a local Sunday carvery soon after we moved up here, and I was happy to embrace the idea. Mrs M was not.
So my fish'n'chip dinner was not entirely un-Sunday.
I'd enjoy mushy peas with a roast - I prefer them and marrowfat peas to other peas.
I have noticed recently that some restaurants and cafés are still calling ordinary peas "garden peas" when the likelihood of them ever having seen a garden is rare. We all know they are Birds Eye's frozen best so why make them sound pretentious?
Reminds me of Peter Mandelson's faux pas in the Hartlepool chippy when he mistook mushy peas for guacamole .
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I'd enjoy mushy peas with a roast - I prefer them and marrowfat peas to other peas.
I have noticed recently that some restaurants and cafés are still calling ordinary peas "garden peas" when the likelihood of them ever having seen a garden is rare. We all know they are Birds Eye's frozen best so why make them sound pretentious?
Nellie, we might have disagreed once or twice in the past, but your views on peas are without a doubt spot on and identical to mine.
I fecking hate Birds Eye frozen peas, although I've grown to accept frozen petit-pois.
In the old days when folk used to buy peas in pods I used to eat them raw
We still buy peas in pods and I still love to eat them raw. When I'm podding prior to cooking, Sam always enquires how many will actually make it to the pan.
Mushy peas are another favourite food, have to make them myself as they are unknown here.
It's a great pity the right of free speech isn't based on the obligation to say something sensible.
Pease pudding is another favourite of mine, not made from peas though. I love it with pork chops or gammon - not that we ever seem to have either these days 🤷🏼♀️
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I make Greek pease pudding all the time. It is called 'fava'and is made with yellow split peas.I pop a whole peeled onion in the water while it is cooking and lift it out afterwards. I sometimes add a small amount of chilli for a change. I have a bowl of it in the fridge right now. This is one of many recipes online, everyone has their preferred way to make it. ~
It's a great pity the right of free speech isn't based on the obligation to say something sensible.
I don't think it's necessarily a north east dish - I have a friend from Taunton who makes his own and most of his old recipes were passed down from his father who was a proper Somerset lad.
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Frazz, I don’t add any herby stuff as I find it intensifies and they can taste quite bitter. If you add chilli, it has to be a tiny amount for the same reason. I just add the removable onion and then a little salt halfway through. The tavernas serve it with chopped raw onion on top It freezes well.
It's a great pity the right of free speech isn't based on the obligation to say something sensible.