first, grow some peas. they’ll be flowers before they’ll be pea pods, but they’ll still taste like peas. (they do! try them on salad! don’t eat sweet pea flowers or peas though. those look like peas but are actually poisonous.)

when your peas are ready, use scissors to cut them off the plant. (don’t pull them off the stem, the plants are too delicate.) shell them, steam/boil/scatter on salad/put them in a bowl/etc and eat them. but what does a pea pod that’s ready to eat look like?

would you go with the left or right pods? the ones on the right are nice and plump, and when i asked my boyfriend last night which ones he’d eat he chose the ones on the right. these are not the peas you want to eat! you want the ones on the left. when your peas look like the ones on the right, they’re really only good for saving to plant or for drying and using in soup. they’re starchy, dry, and sometimes even a little bitter. the ones on the left are juicy, sweet, and taste like concentrated springtime.

so remember…

don’t eat these peas!

eat these ones! they are delicious, good for you, and full of green pea-ness. they will fill your mouth with a peanessy flavor. you’ll have their pea-ness on the brain for days after! in fact, some people might call you pea-ness obssessed. JESUS CHRIST WHY DO PEOPLE STILL LET ME ON THE INTERNET