pea pod soup – ewww

Those heaps of fresh green lovely looking pea pods just look too good to waste. But what to do with them? Well, I still intend to make pea pod wine – but the pods I need are stashed in the freezer, waiting for a spare demijohn. I have 15 bubbling away, but until the charity shop yields some more glass demijohns, that’s my lot. As it goes, one has just become free as it turns out the cider settling away has gone manky.  I’m philosophical about it; it’s the first one to go wrong in all these years, and it’s not like apple juice is sterile in the first place.  Ho hum. Still now I can get on with the wine

But I have enough pods for that dubious project, and yet mountains more.  I googled and found that a thrifty war time recipe of pea pod soup exists, and seems essentially, boil pods, sift out stringy bits, make remainder into a thin soup. Two crops off the pea? nice idea.

Only – after lots of cooking, then blending, then seiving, the resulting liquid is not particularly pleasant at all.  I guess with lots of added flavouring and other veg, it might be nice, but I could make that without the pea pods! – so. no not a recommendation.

Doesn’t bode well for the pea pod wine either.  But… we shall see.

Meantime I have found that the pigs love pea pods, and so long as we pod them in the veg patch (thereby not breaking the kitchen scraps rule) we do have another use for pea pods after all.  We turn them into pork.