Just found a new favourite snack... wasabi peas

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Humbinger Wasabi Peas...
seriously hard work NOT eating the entire packet in one sitting... :D

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Oh yes, I'm partial to a wasabi pea. Or several. I don't like them too hot, just hot enough to be tasty..
 
sounds like these would be ideal for you. There were only 3 in the entire pack that made my nose hurt! :cry:

first time I have had them, though we use wasabi paste in our recipes. Usually have dried broad beans but can't easily get hold of them at the moment - food doctor have some dried mixed beans which are excellent, but too expensive.
 
Isn't wasabi like a pepper, as opposed to a curry, in that it irritates your nose and can have a 'hot zing' to it, but it doesn't hang around for long afterwards like oil-based curries?
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
sounds like these would be ideal for you. There were only 3 in the entire pack that made my nose hurt! :cry:

first time I have had them, though we use wasabi paste in our recipes. Usually have dried broad beans but can't easily get hold of them at the moment - food doctor have some dried mixed beans which are excellent, but too expensive.
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OT slightly, do you ever dry your own broad beans? They are something I've grown well in the past, but sometimes you get such a glut, and I'd like a go at drying some. When I get round to growing any, once we've got a garden!

(So no rush then....)
 
Arch said:
OT slightly, do you ever dry your own broad beans? They are something I've grown well in the past, but sometimes you get such a glut, and I'd like a go at drying some. When I get round to growing any, once we've got a garden!

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Like you, currently no garden and the ones I did grew at our last home were usually lucky to survive to the kitchen - I am horrendous when it comes to snacking on raw beans & peas straight off the plant!
but I do do my own spicy roasted chickpeas in the oven and am looking at one or two others. tomorrow I am trying some roasted black eyed beans because I managed to cook too many for a bean & mushroom pate I did today... so then it is just a case of seasonings.... but broad beans I have not tried, though I have found a couple of places selling dried broad beans online which I might try - you rehydrate, cook and then roast or fry them normally for the roasted spicey bean option.
 
I know what you mean about snacking on fresh peas, I don't think any of my allotment crop ever made it home! But less so broad beans, especially when they start to get a bit big and old.
 
roasted those black eyed beans this morning. none left now. yummy. possibly a touch drier than I wanted but shall work on the times a touch more. would make for a nice change and home done ones don't need to be salted....
just tossed them in some olive oil in a plastic bag before cooking so less oil and thoroughly coated and roasted them at 170C for around 1 hour being careful not to burn them...
 
I bought a small pack of these at Morrisons at the weekend - erm, not really to my taste - had about four or five of them and then binned the rest. Too strong for my nose I'm afraid. Perhaps if they had a little less zing I might have persisted.
 
The funny thing is tha last night we had a little dish of them on the table and were dipping in. Three or four times, NT got one so hot it hurt his nose. I never did!
 
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