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There is nothing more delicious than the taste of freshly shelled peas; the smell of the grassy sweetness of fresh peas always shouts out summer to me.
With the grand re-opening of Provender Brown on George Street this week, I was, like many, keen to get back in to stock up on provisions, and picked up some of their ricotta cheese.
I decided to prepare a tartine of fresh peas and ricotta, so I put my kids to work after school this week shelling mountains of pods, and with a cartoon on in the background, they got on quite happily with the task in hand.
As the kids were happily shelling their peas, I set about making my tartine. Ciabatta bread works well for this recipe, and I topped my tartine with seasonal radishes which compliment the taste of the peas well.
Fresh peas are so delicious eaten straight out of the shell as a snack. I used raw peas as a topping on this tartine but if you prefer you could cook the peas, allowing them to cool before popping on top.
Enjoy
Gill x
Peas straight from the pod have the ability to transport me straight back to my childhood in Tarry Row and I'd be willing to bet that I my sister, brother and two cousins would agree with me whole heartedly.
My Grandad had a huge vegetable patch 'out the back' (Was it huge or did I just think it was?) and grew everything from seed. I'd sit merrily in rows of peas, picking them straight from the vine, munching down and throwing the skins into his compost heap.
In the summer months, when the sun seemed endless (it was the seventies afterall!) the five of us would sit in our ganghut with bowls of pea pods chomping down on one afer the other. And if this seems far too healthy and wholesome for 1979 fear not, we were given bowls of sugar to dip our strawberries and cremola foam to wash it all down.
This one is a winner for me - and another wee trip to the much missed Provender Brown is always a bonus!
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