Monday, October 13, 2008

Purple Hull Peas

I am a northerner. Born and raised in Ohio, lived in Michigan for the last 8 1/2 years. Moved to Mississippi two weeks ago. What culture shock?

Today we stopped at the farm stand up the road. The same farm stand where I bought okra and green tomatoes - and got a tried and true family recipe for cooking both. While we were there we saw big bags of *something.* I asked Marty what he thought they might be and we both guessed strangely colored black eyed peas. I am pretty sure we were wrong.

I think what we saw were shelled purple hull peas.


Of course, I have no idea how to cook them. Man I love the internet.

I will let you know how they turn out.

Picture from flickr.

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