It was too hot to walk the dog for more than 15 minutes this afternoon, so I was glad when I finished picking all these peas by around 11 AM.  Stayed inside and watched old episdodes of ’30 Rock’ with the kids while shelling peas and avoiding the weather.  The first pods of the season were ready to pick Memorial Day weekend.  Now we are separating pods and peas.  We snap the tops from the peas, peel off the string, and then drop top and string in the compost bowl, pods in a second and peas in a third,  In this hot weather, we only wnat to have cold Vietnamese salads and noodles for dinner.  We are saving the pea pods for those.

Caterpillars are eating up the bok choy, another reason for making more aisian salads, a Chinese cole slaw, perhaps. 

We’ve pulled all our arugula, but still have some salad that is good.

Dinner tonight:  Steak, peas and Angel Food Cake with Strawberries.  Tomorrow:  Peas:  Snap pea salad, pea, radish and feta salad, seared chicken and snap peas, peas and prosciutto with pasta…