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Post by canadamike on Jan 4, 2009 23:38:27 GMT -5
I have promised a lady here to buy soup pea so she can make french canadian pea soup, like her late husband used to do , but I have zapped the message and don't remember to whom I made the promise.
The peas are ready to be mailed and have been for quite a while, I was hoping for another sign, and since it didn't came....
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Post by greeneyes on Jan 5, 2009 0:33:26 GMT -5
Hey Mike,that was me,,thought you forgot about it..need my address?Thanks
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Post by canadamike on Jan 5, 2009 0:37:18 GMT -5
yep, pm me the addy please. Do you want enough to eat or to seed??
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Post by greeneyes on Jan 5, 2009 0:43:48 GMT -5
Actually I want just enough to seed,I can't find those peas here at all,so figured if I ever want to have them at all,I'll have to grow my own.My address is in your mail.Thanks,Dawn
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Post by raymondo on Feb 7, 2009 6:30:23 GMT -5
I love using other dried legumes (beans, chickpeas, lentils and so on) but not peas. I should work on that. Does anyone here have a favourite soup pea?
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Post by canadamike on Feb 7, 2009 6:57:46 GMT -5
I can send you the peas for the french canadian pea soup, we buy them at the grocery store, I don't know the name of the cultivar, but it is definitely different from the other pea soups I have had. They are a yellow pea. Very good. Very very good.
Did you get your seeds, Ray?
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Post by grungy on Feb 7, 2009 7:16:08 GMT -5
I am resisting mightily......
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Post by raymondo on Feb 8, 2009 5:22:14 GMT -5
I got some seeds from biorag (Gérard). Are they the ones you're asking about? I haven't received any others.
As far as the peas go, thank you for the offer, but there's no point trying to send legume seeds as they are too expensive. I would have to pay very high quarantine fees. Legumes, corn, tomatoes potatoes and one or two other things are too expensive to import. Only the large seed companies can afford the costs.
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Post by canadamike on Feb 8, 2009 9:27:13 GMT -5
No, I sent you melon seeds, about 20-30, can't remember, etc quite a while ago, about a month, and I did it properly according to your instructions, with species names etc...
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Post by canadamike on Feb 8, 2009 10:06:24 GMT -5
My dear mightily resisting friend:
No need to resist, just go to the grocery store and for 99 cents you have a pound... it would cost me more to send you a packet of those....
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Post by grungy on Feb 8, 2009 11:30:05 GMT -5
EERRR! Michel, I am still resisting and the only yellow peas we get here in the Creston Valley are split peas, which are hard to germinate. Now suppose you give us a good recipe for french canadian pea soup?
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Post by PatrickW on Feb 8, 2009 12:20:13 GMT -5
There is a purple (also called 'blue') podded soup pea popular here in the Netherlands called Caupcijners. It's a soup pea, but the peas don't disintegrate when you cook them like normal soup peas do, rather they stay whole and end up being eaten almost like beans. They make their own tasty and rich broth. While capucijners are Dutch, in fact almost every northern European country has their own version of this pea. There are several varieties available here in the Netherlands. More generically they are referred to as grey peas or field peas. Sometimes they are called raisin peas. Capucijners are very popular here, and come with my personal recommendation! I don't know for sure if I have any of my own seeds, but they are easy enough to buy. If anyone is interested, send me a PM and I'll send you some seeds. I did a post here: www.patnsteph.net/weblog/?p=41and Søren did a post here about the Danish version: toads.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/grey-peas/ |
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Post by biorag on Feb 8, 2009 12:41:30 GMT -5
Very interesting. I'll grow these peas for the first time because of you !  I found some seeds of " BLAUWSCHOKKER ". I don't know if it's a dutch variety. |
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Post by grungy on Feb 8, 2009 13:21:17 GMT -5
Thanks Patrick and Soren, those peas looked absolutely delicious.
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Post by PatrickW on Feb 8, 2009 13:39:46 GMT -5
Gérard, yes, those are probably a Dutch variety. Blauw is certainly 'blue', and I think schokker is an old Dutch word meaning podded.
There are two main varieties here, Désirée and Ezetha's Krombek. The former grows to about 1m and is a little earlier, and the later grows to 2+ meters. There are also a couple of old varieties floating around at the moment like Kool's Langestro, and one called Amsterdam as well as a few others. As far as I know they are all 'blue' podded. I always grow Ezetha's Krombek.
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