Peapod Soup

Well, here's the verdict on Peapod Soup. It was actually very nice, a rather sweet soup (reminiscent of the sweetness of the new peas - not surprising I suppose) but very tasty. Thanks are due to Old Scrote for the recipe - didn't have any spring onions to hand, so just used a normal onion, but it seems to have worked anyway.

This said, not sure we'd make it again in a huge hurry. The peapods themselves have a framework of stringy bits, around a cellophane like membrane that is completely inedible. They have to be boiled 'forever' (well, not literally), before stripping off the outer 'pulp' by hand (tried using a knife or spoon to speed things up but it didn't have sufficient delicacy of touch); it was all extremely fiddly.

Maybe we didn't actually boil the pods for quite long enough, because it must have taken over an hour to strip down this lot. The 'remains' looked strangely insectish - like the shed skin of a locust or something . . .