mcnerd -- I appreciate your continued responsiveness, and apologize for my inexperience, but I am still confused. Let me summarize what I *think* I've understood from your notes:
Canned sweet peas (as bought at the store) are added at the end of the cooking process
Dehydrated sweet peas...
mcnerd -- so, you use Dry Peas (such as what I bought) without soaking them by directly adding to stews or soups. And you use canned peas for other things (and sometimes dehydrate these yourself)?
Claire & Yakuta -- thanks for the info & ideas; we'll experiment to see what works for us. McNerd -- when you say that when you have extra cans of peas, you dehydrate them to keep with your emergency supplies, does this result in the same thing ("dry green peas") that I purchased, or are yours...
My thanks for the replies. Regarding Hominy, I actually don't even know what that is (other than being told I can't sing in "hominy"), but, the distributor's label is clearly "2008 Organic Yellow Corn". I called the distributor today and was told that it is used for milling into corn meal...
I'll first ask for everyone's patience as this is my second post (and I just joined the forum!) on a similar topic. I bought a 50# bag of "Whole Green Peas", and we tried to make peas for a side dish. They didn't come out well, but I think we made a basic error. My wife read that peas didn't...
We bought a 50# bag of "Yellow Corn", and now I'm trying to figure out what to do with it! I had naively thought that soaking it and cooking in the pressure cooker would let us serve it as a side dish -- in place of the canned corn we've always used. When we tried that, the corn kernels were...