Pleased with peas!

Those jumbles of shelling pea plants nestled up against the garden trellises are going wild. They love the end-of-March, beginning-of-April weather we're having: cold nights, sunny days, with intermittent days and nights of rain. And we're starting to harvest daily to enjoy one of the most pleasing and compelling signs of Spring: tender, delicious fresh peas.



Our first gathering of peas wasn't quite enough for a stand-alone bowl of steamed green pearls, so we dressed up the peas with some sauteed onions and proscuitto, and tossed them with farfalle and




parmesan to create a wonderful first course of Farfalle Con Proscuitto e Piselli.

But then, a few days later, we had so many peas that we just had to make an entire bowl of them. Here's how: we picked a scallion from the garden, chopped it and sauteed it in butter, then stirred in the steamed peas with salt and pepper. We served the peas alongside some veal marsala, and a salad of greens just cut from the garden. Fantastico! Bella was quite pleased with the outcome, as you can see!