>Fresh new young peas. Nothing better. Your daughters have taste. It's too bad that so many people don't understand and insist on cooking them to oblivion. Of course, the Scottish have this nasty thing called 'mushy peas'. Now there's a people that really doesn't understand.

Peas are great even cooked, as long as they keep their color and resist chewing at least a little. The pea pureé, i.e. any recipe that calls them to be mashed, is actually still on my "no I don't eat that" list. I forgot to mention it simply because it didn't come up for decades (just like the downright awful just-old-overboiled-carrots-entree with which they tortured us in the kindergarten).