Fresh Green Peas - favorite ways to cook or include them?

[Tom P]

We are still getting wonderful bags of fresh green peas. I love them. I was curious how other people love to cook them or use them. Thanks!

[rasputina]

Gosh I just eat pick them off the plant and pop them in my mouth. They are great raw.

[silvergirl]

With cream and potatoes; with pasta and prosciutto in a cream sauce; in risotto (mine's not great but my kids don't know that)

[ipsedixit]

Quickly blanched, and then tossed with a soy, wasabi, ginger and garlic marinade.

[danna]

I had a dish last spring at EVO in Charleston, SC. As best I remember, it was pickled (marinated maybe) red onions sliced very thin and chopped, feta cheese, green peas and some pea shoots on top. Seems there was lemon involved somehow, but I can't remember exactly. It was one of those dishes that was so much greater than the sum of it's parts. It tasted like spring. Where the heck do you live?

[CanadaGirl]

Sautéed with lots of ginger.

[mtoo]

Bacon and pea risotto. Cook the bacon in a pot, remove to paper towels, drain some of the grease and start risotto from there (with a little garlic and onion.) Stir in peas with parm and add crumbled bacon at the last minute.

Bacon and peas work will with a reduced cream sauce (and a little garlic) for spaghetti.

[nasv]

I really love the combination of peas with rice (I like brown rice too) and peas with pasta and a butter or olive oil based sauce. Whether I have the peas fresh or frozen, I usually add them at the end, almost as if they were an herb or a garnish, and the last bits of heat or residual cooking heats them through just right and keeps them bright and fresh.

[Querencia]

Half-and-half with cooked rice, generously sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese.

[eclecticsynergy]

+1 vote for peas and rice, one of my all-time favorites! I enjoy them with a small pat of good cultured unsalted butter and a sprinkle of Herbamare.

[mamachef]

I love pea puree with lots of butter and cream, and I love them barely steamed and finished off w/ a splash of heavy cream. Mmmmmm, fresh green pea soup is delicious. And you can make a layered salad, or eggs Foo Yong w/ a handful thrown in, yum.

[kattyeyes]

+1 on fresh pea soup. I've made a version with lemon cream clouds (heavy cream, lemon zest, salt) that melt into the soup. Fresh, bright and yummy!

And thank you for making me go look for the recipe. I found my "Hey, Bobby!" version of "Pass the Peas" I'd been looking for while I was there. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUkfiLjooxs

This Food & Wine recipe is a favorite of mine, too. I've added pancetta--and lemon zest is another fine addition, as I learned here on CH:
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/pe...

[Cherylptw]

Simply sauteed in a bit of butter; a sprinkling of kosher salt & pepper

[MunchkinRedux]

And a little bit of fresh tarragon ...

[Harters]

Simplest is best for me. Quick boil, with a sprig of mint if it's still growing outside (a few months yet till it starts again)