{"id":1583,"date":"2012-08-02T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T21:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2012-08-02T14:50:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T21:50:59","slug":"using-and-preserving-edible-pea-pods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/?p=1583","title":{"rendered":"Using and Preserving Edible Pea Pods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Edible pea pods are versatile and tasty when used in salads (raw or blanched), stir fried dishes, casseroles, and in an ordinary bowl of soup.\u00a0 Just heat and eat, or cook until soft as you would green beans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">The best way to preserve edible pea pods is by freezing.\u00a0 Blanching stops enzymes from continuing the ripening process.\u00a0 Unblanched vegetables will have undesirable flavor, texture and vitamin loss during storage.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Wash and trim ends of pods, removing any strings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Immerse 2 cups of peas in 2 gallon of boiling water in a wire basket or cheesecloth bag.\u00a0 Cover and begin counting immediately.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Boil 1 minute for thin snow peas, 1 \u00bd to 2 minutes for thick sugar snap (until heated through).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Cool for 2 minutes in cold running water.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Drain and pack in moisture-vapor proof, sealed containers.\u00a0 Or freeze quickly on a cookie sheet before packaging (great for stir-fry).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edible pea pods are versatile and tasty when used in salads (raw or blanched), stir fried dishes, casseroles, and in an ordinary bowl of soup.\u00a0 Just heat and eat, or cook until soft as you would green beans. \u00a0The best way to preserve edible pea pods is by freezing.\u00a0 Blanching stops enzymes from continuing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gourmet.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}