Thursday, August 12, 2010

Side dish #1: Fresh Peas

I never cooked with fresh peas until recently. Tonight I made a side and it was tasty. Even Gordie ate it!!


Ingredients:

Fresh Peas, podded
diced red onion
Toasted pine nuts
Asiago cheese
oil or butter
salt and pepper

Steam fresh peas for 3 minutes until tender but not shriveled, like mine :(  Remove from pan. Empty water and then use pan to heat oil or melt butter (I used soy butter). Sweat onions until translucent. In a side pan, toast pine nuts until light golden brown. DO NOT OVER TOAST! Nothing is good over-toasted, think about it!
Once onions are cooked, add peas and pine nuts, then season with salt and pepper. Once you have plated your peas, add a sprinkle of asiago cheese.

A side dish that your kids may eat!
Notes on this dish: Make sure not to overcook peas or pine nuts or it will ruin the dish! Also, a friend of mine introduced me to adding pesto to peas and it was delish!! Try it!

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