[puravida]

Been to a few 'la-di-da' restaurants recently and a recurring theme seems seems to be garnishing things with pea tops.

Just last week I noticed Waitrose are now selling bag-fulls in the salad section!

Decided to snip a few off my own plants tonight - knocks the hell out of the pre-bagged stuff!!!

Very tasty though - went down a treat.

[SalJ1980]

Yep...Nigel Slater (I think) was going on about them in the Observer food section today

It's good to know they're edible anyway, at least if I don't get any peas we can still eat the leaves!  

[puravida]

oh  they're lovely.
I took the top 3-4" (shoots, stems & leaves) off the top of some well established flowering plants.

yum yum yum

[SalJ1980]

mmm looking forward to it already! Is it just the tops you can eat or all leaves? Well I suppose if you can eat some you can eat all!

[puravida]

not sure - I took the top set of leaves off in a few of the snips I took and they were lovely.

Not tried the ones further down - I expect you can eat them buy maybe not as young, sweet and tender.

[SalJ1980]

Makes sense!

[DD.]

My bl**dy pigeons sure like them.

[SalJ1980]

Well what do keep pigeons for then, if they keep eating your veg? Oh, I see, not 'your' pigeons....