Old Fashioned Pea Salad From Fresh Garden Peas

This recipe is timeless for a reason. Works just as well from a bag of frozen peas.
Pea Salad
From a Potluck recipe long ago…
½ cup mayonnaise
½ cup sour cream
2 tsp Dijon mustard
¼ tsp garlic powder
14 oz (the size of a small frozen bag) of peas
4 oz sharp cheddar cheese, diced into pea sized bits
½ cup shelled peanuts
¼ cup finely chopped onion
Mix mayo, sour cream, mustard and garlic powder in a large bowl. Top with remaining ingredients and mix well. Best if allowed to sit for a bit before serving. If you like more peas and less dressing, just decrease mayo and sour cream to 1/3 cup each and increase the amount of peas to a pound.
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[@shannon.N]

I love pea salad. It looks delicious, especially the peanuts. My climate is similar to yours, so I started to follow your channel. I couldn’t plant a garden this spring, so I’m interested in a fall garden. Any recommendations?

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Fall gardens can be tricky, especially for the longer season crops, because in order to get them to harvest, you need to start them, often, in July, but July and August are HOT. The basic rule of thumb is find your first frost date. Then look at "days to harvest" on the seed pack (note that if its a crop that is normally transplanted rather than direct seeded they REALLY mean days from transplant). Then find one of those online date calculators and subtract one from the other to get a rough idea of when to plant. For crops that can take a frost, you can usually assume you'll get 2 weeks to a month additional growing time. Keep good notes and experiment. I find the ONLY way I can get a good cauliflower crop is if I plant it in the fall (and choose a variety with a short days to maturity time). Johnny's Select Seeds has a good calculator for this under their Growers Library/Planning Tools and Calculators. It's good for remembering all the possibilities. www.johnnyseeds.com/growers-library/online-tools-calculators.html

[@shannon.N]

@@cookingtheharvestAhh, that was kind of you to reply in such detail. I appreciate your time. I am interested in your newsletter, but I don’t know what “Image URL” means? Also, I admit that I had to look up the word ubiquitous. A bonus vocabulary word for the week, lol. Love it.

[@cookingtheharvest]

@@shannon.N You are very sweet. Sorry, I'll check the URL. Try this one instead. mailchi.mp/bbafc6a7b1cb/interested-in-monthly-updates-from-miles-away-farm

[@shannon.N]

@@cookingtheharvestPerfect, it worked.