View topic - Have you ever peeled peas?

by **Binky** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:17 pm

In this weekend's FT, there is the usual 'Restaurant Insider' article which reviews a different restaurant each week.

The restaurant this week was Le Chambord, in Alsace. Four course menu for 153 euro. The writer had tarte flambée (onion and bacon topped with cream), a kromeski (a parcel of snails, parsley and garlic), foie gras and a fillet of eel stuffed with pike mousse, served with leek purée.

The reason I have posted this is because the writer says the high
light of the meal was a dish of tiny, sweet peeled peas covered in a sauce of creamy caviare, plus a dish of braised lettuce.

I have to say I'm very confused about peeling peas. That must be the most laborious task in any kitchen, professional or not.

by **cherrytree** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:18 pm

Do you think the writer meant podded?

by **smitch** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:23 pm

I never have but my rats all do :lol:

They won't eat the 'skin', so there is always a little pile left next the the dish!

by **Binky** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:28 pm

cherrytree, the writer is British, so there should be no misuse of the word peeled, when you actually mean podded.

The reason I'm sure he means peeled is that he goes on to say (roughly 'the cost of the ingredients is not much, it's the kitchen work that you are paying for'

by **Joanbunting** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:43 pm

I've peeled broad beans - it's done quite frequently here, but never peas ! That is really above and beyond.

by **Sakkarin** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:49 pm

Maybe it's someone young, who doesn't realise that peas are podded not peeled. I remember podding bucketsfull of peas as a kid, back then frozen peas were an absolute luxury (bought loose from Macfisheries by the pound I vaguely recall - anyone remember?), and had to be eaten the same day as we didn't have a freezer.

Or of course tinned :crying2

If it is really peeling, you can keep that.

by **Stokey Sue** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 4:22 pm

I have never peeled individual peas, though like smitch’s rats I have been known to leave the skins on the side of the plate when eating elderly home grown ones and nobody is looking :roll:

I do quite often peel individual broad beans - the trick seems to be to cold shock them by going all cheffy and putting them straight into heavily iced water as soon as blanched and drained

Simon Hopkinson’s hummus recipe suggests skinning the chickpeas before blending. I tried it, didn’t think it worth it, certainly if you have a food processor or liquidiser strong enough to purée them

by **cherrytree** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 4:23 pm

I was thinking like Sakkarin. The reason I wrote it is because I do a weekly singing group with some young children and their parents. Every summer we do a song called ‘ Five little peas in a pea pod pressed’ and every year I take a bag of unpodded peas in for the children to see, feel taste etc. It isn’t just the children who are intrigued by this strange phenomenon!

by **karadekoolaid** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 4:29 pm

Broad beans, yes. Then you get Lima beans . and aesthetically, IMHO, the bright green beans are more appealing than the greyish-green ones.
I think I might have a go at peeling peas if I were locked in solitary confinement for 50 years. :crying1

by **Amyw** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 4:30 pm

I imagine that would be tedious in the extreme and can't really see the end result would be worth it

by **wargarden** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 4:59 pm

has any one checked the menu to see what the translation really says; instead indirectly though the article.

by **Alexandria** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 5:06 pm

Have never seen or heard of peeling unpodded peas.

Definitely have never heard of Spaniards peeling chickpeas as we soak them overnight the traditional grandmother´s way ..

Surely intensely laborious ..

by **Stokey Sue** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 5:09 pm

wargarden wrote:has any one checked the menu to see what the translation really says; instead indirectly though the article.

Unfortunately it just says the details will change during the season

by **wargarden** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 5:18 pm

i only seen pealed peas twice pea soup and strained peas baby food.

by **Binky** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 5:24 pm

This is the hotel restaurant menu

https://www.lechambard.fr/en/a-la-carte-set-menus.html

by **wargarden** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:23 pm

after looking at menus i do not see peas any where but the type set of menu is tough to read.

by **Renee** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:56 pm

I also didn't find any mention of peeled peas.

by **Sakkarin** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:13 pm

That website doesn't work properly on my computer, but I did manage to find this pic on "La Table D'Olivier Nasti" menu under "restaurants" (photo 3 or 4 in an automatic slideshow) - the green slug may be peeled peas, or maybe the green bits the slug is eating are liquid nitrogen frozen peeled peas. ...

by **Stokey Sue** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:08 pm

As I think the sprig is a pea shoot, that’s probably it

by **Binky** » Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:14 pm

Blimey. What a tiny portion. Two forkfuls and you're done.

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