This reminded me that I had accumulated several quart bags of field peas in the freezer over the growing season, so I defrosted and pressure canned them all tonight. Now I have extra room in my small freezer, and the peas are ready to heat and eat.
God provided me with a blessing of mange tout peas, sugar snap peas, and extra fine green beans just days ago and this evening (UK GMT) you have been lead to do video on preserving varieties of American peas. Preparedness is a life subject and God has every tiny detail covered in His teaching of and provisions for that subject. Thank you for your part.
Wanda with the chopped peppers, you can put them in jars (I use the half gallon Ball jars) add the oxygen absorber and seal it with your food saver. They don't get crushed, look beautiful in the pantry, and it's easy to grab what you need for a recipe. Thanks for posting this one, I'm gonna do that with next year's pink eye purple hull
Going through my freezer and found bags of frozen peas and wanted to use my new freeze dryer. I knew I could rely on you Miss Wanda😊 thanks a whole bunch and blessing to you all. Also going to do some watermelon like you did. Watermelon was my first experiment, I cut it too thick and didn't let it process long enough.
We planted cream cowpeas this year for the first time in Ohio to see how they would do! They did WAY better than the shell and for producing food for our family of 7 they are now are top planting peas! I canned my too!😉
We received our Freeze Dryer today! The first thing I’m running through it will be 3 trays of cooked purple hull peas and 1 tray of Raritan peaches. Seeing your peas made me so excited to try them!
Wow! I learned so much about freeze drying in this video. I never would have thought of freeze drying watermelon. Fresh peas sounds wonderful, as I am from Memphis but now live in Western Montana. Some things don't grow well up here because of our short growing season and high elevation.
I want a freeze dryer so bad. It's just not in the budget. But, I love how it's helping you guys preserve your food. If anyone deserves more options for preserving, it's y'all.
Miss Wanda, have you ever done "creamed" peas? Dad used to make a "gravy" with flour, water, & milk or butter to cream the peas & then depending on how much he wanted to fuss with them, some times took "left over" meat - ham, turkey, beef - added that to the peas with some onions & served it over toasted bread. If Dad made it, it was usually good & filling. He would salt & pepper to HIS taste, and then others could add more at the table.
I live further south than you so the humidity here is off the charts. It gets 80% and above for days at a time. Of course it rains a lot too. The main thing the air conditioner does is to pull the humidity down to something reasonable like 60%. I keep a de-humidifier and sometimes two of them running in the house all summer. The one in my master bedroom and bath area pulls two gallons of water a day out of the air in that part of the house. I have never paid retail for one but i find de-humidifiers at flea markets or goodwill stores for $20 or so and buy them when I can. You might consider putting one in your she-shed. Thanks for all you do. John Davis Jax Fl
OMG miss Wanda my favorite is Dixie Lee !! I love them all ! I couldn’t get any Dixie Lee’s this year I’m 70 years old and disabled but I so wanted to be able to try and grow some in the containers and be able to freeze some my granny always canned hers! I live in North Carolina in the pickle capital lol
Thank you for this video. I've looked and looked for a video of freeze drying COOKED field peas, or any bean, to see if they break open when freeze dried. I've seen a couple of videos where blanched beans did break open and the skin peeled back, which would probably turn the beans to mush when re-hydrated. I didn't want to have that happen to 4 trays of field peas, even though it's best to go ahead and cook & freeze dry so they take less time to have eatable beans in bad times. God bless
I grew black eyed peas the first time this year. I’m up in NY and they took forever to take off. They sprouted and then stayed like 4 inches tall for 6 weeks and then shot off tendrils. Idk if that was normal or just our weather but wow a fresh field pea is delicious! Then I saved all the harvest (only about 16 ounces so far, and the plants are starting to yellow) and I’m thinking to save it all for seed since it was the only variety of cow pea i grew. Then next year I’ll plant out a 25 foot whole row
What part of New York? My string, burgundy, and yellow wax are flourishing on Long Island. Just starting on my property upstate so idk if they will do good there but I have peach, apple and pear treed that are thriving up here. Let's trade some varieties.
I was wondering that too. I have such a small freezer there really isn’t space to put up much using it... it seems like freeze drying and storing in Mylar bags would be more space saving than having them canned too. I’d also be curious about how long they would keep freeze dried cooked vs raw, or if it would make any difference.
@@tacticalllama9211 I’ve been researching this and it’s seems most people do not have much success unless they are cooked first. Also it takes a very long time between 45-50 hrs and then there was still some failure. Seems it is much more Difficult to get all the moisture out if raw. Im freezing for now and will probably cook and freeze dry later.
First time growing Red Rippers ..Misplaced package and b4 getting to educate myself . I picked them green ! They're 10 inches long . Am i able to put them up or have i lost them ?
So can you just freeze them, or do you have to blanch them first ? I remember my grandparents saying years back you have to blanch them first. I love purple hull. I didn't know you could just freeze them. That would save time.
Y'all ever get a black bell pepper? I'm getting green ones on there too, but that poor old black still seems to be hanging in there and slowly growing.
This reminded me that I had accumulated several quart bags of field peas in the freezer over the growing season, so I defrosted and pressure canned them all tonight. Now I have extra room in my small freezer, and the peas are ready to heat and eat.
Field peas were my favorite out of my grandparents garden. But the best memories are of shelling them on the front porch. We all had a pan.
God provided me with a blessing of mange tout peas, sugar snap peas, and extra fine green beans just days ago and this evening (UK GMT) you have been lead to do video on preserving varieties of American peas. Preparedness is a life subject and God has every tiny detail covered in His teaching of and provisions for that subject. Thank you for your part.
Wanda with the chopped peppers, you can put them in jars (I use the half gallon Ball jars) add the oxygen absorber and seal it with your food saver. They don't get crushed, look beautiful in the pantry, and it's easy to grab what you need for a recipe. Thanks for posting this one, I'm gonna do that with next year's pink eye purple hull
Cowpeas with cornbread... Mmmmmm yummy
Going through my freezer and found bags of frozen peas and wanted to use my new freeze dryer. I knew I could rely on you Miss Wanda😊 thanks a whole bunch and blessing to you all.
Also going to do some watermelon like you did. Watermelon was my first experiment, I cut it too thick and didn't let it process long enough.
Wanda-full. 🌱🌱🌱
We planted cream cowpeas this year for the first time in Ohio to see how they would do! They did WAY better than the shell and for producing food for our family of 7 they are now are top planting peas! I canned my too!😉
We received our Freeze Dryer today! The first thing I’m running through it will be 3 trays of cooked purple hull peas and 1 tray of Raritan peaches. Seeing your peas made me so excited to try them!
Wow! I learned so much about freeze drying in this video. I never would have thought of freeze drying watermelon. Fresh peas sounds wonderful, as I am from Memphis but now live in Western Montana. Some things don't grow well up here because of our short growing season and high elevation.
I can eat cream peas till I can't move. Love them. And of course boiled peanuts is a must. Have you tried drying boiled peanuts?
Wow, wish I had a freeze dryer! That looks awesome!
going to try field peas in most of my beds this year.
My mother used to cook all kinds of beans and peas That’s why that generation of southerners were so strong.
Hi Wanda thanks for sharing this video very useful information to no
I want a freeze dryer so bad. It's just not in the budget. But, I love how it's helping you guys preserve your food. If anyone deserves more options for preserving, it's y'all.
If I hear mr Danny right Harvest Right has lay a way plan
Would love to see you freeze dry some speckled butterbeans and taste test them. They are my favorite butterbean!
Thank y'all Wanda
Blessings, julie
Wonderful 🎉
Butter peas are my favorite. I can't find them in my area of Alabama anymore
I recently tried field peas for the first time. I have to say they are awesome.
Great video Mrs.Wanda! Last time I planted peas, in the middle of town, every 🦌 in my county came.
Fresh peas are so good!
We always pull quite a few immature pods and have snaps with our peas. We have grown acres of peas some years.
My Grandad liked the zipper peas and purple hulls! He was from Samson, Ala
Miss Wanda, have you ever done "creamed" peas? Dad used to make a "gravy" with flour, water, & milk or butter to cream the peas & then depending on how much he wanted to fuss with them, some times took "left over" meat - ham, turkey, beef - added that to the peas with some onions & served it over toasted bread.
If Dad made it, it was usually good & filling. He would salt & pepper to HIS taste, and then others could add more at the table.
Yes they are good
Amelia-Irene in PDX.... Oh that sounds JUST delicious!!!! I would love it over mashed tators... :)
I appreciate you and Danny so much. ❤
We had an abundance of zipper cream peas this year over in GA. It was a good year for peas; next year we are going to try purple hulls.
Those peas blew my mind!!!! Amazing for sure❤️
I live further south than you so the humidity here is off the charts.
It gets 80% and above for days at a time. Of course it rains a lot too.
The main thing the air conditioner does is to pull the humidity down to something reasonable like 60%.
I keep a de-humidifier and sometimes two of them running in the house all summer.
The one in my master bedroom and bath area pulls two gallons of water a day out of the air in that part of the house.
I have never paid retail for one but i find de-humidifiers at flea markets or goodwill stores for $20 or so and buy them when I can.
You might consider putting one in your she-shed.
Thanks for all you do.
John Davis Jax Fl
I really like those bags
Excellent stuff!
OMG miss Wanda my favorite is Dixie Lee !! I love them all ! I couldn’t get any Dixie Lee’s this year I’m 70 years old and disabled but I so wanted to be able to try and grow some in the containers and be able to freeze some my granny always canned hers! I live in North Carolina in the pickle capital lol
I luv cow peas. They are hard to find in MD.
eyeing those cast iron skillets on your stove-love cast iron-are those lodge skillets?
Fabulous video.. 🌷🌷👌👌
I put a beef bullion cube in peas or a chicken cube in butter beans.
Thank you for this video. I've looked and looked for a video of freeze drying COOKED field peas, or any bean, to see if they break open when freeze dried. I've seen a couple of videos where blanched beans did break open and the skin peeled back, which would probably turn the beans to mush when re-hydrated. I didn't want to have that happen to 4 trays of field peas, even though it's best to go ahead and cook & freeze dry so they take less time to have eatable beans in bad times. God bless
Dixie lee are the best
Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
Our cowpeas did great and they're coming back, so I'm gonna let them go. I will be making the bone sauce next year.
Great video I've never had freeze dried but I love to eat them so I'm sure I'd like it thanks for sharing your very knowledgeable
I grew black eyed peas the first time this year. I’m up in NY and they took forever to take off. They sprouted and then stayed like 4 inches tall for 6 weeks and then shot off tendrils. Idk if that was normal or just our weather but wow a fresh field pea is delicious! Then I saved all the harvest (only about 16 ounces so far, and the plants are starting to yellow) and I’m thinking to save it all for seed since it was the only variety of cow pea i grew. Then next year I’ll plant out a 25 foot whole row
Great! Fyi, youll get about 15 lbs of peas in a 100ft row. Calculate accordingly...
What part of New York?
My string, burgundy, and yellow wax are flourishing on Long Island.
Just starting on my property upstate so idk if they will do good there but I have peach, apple and pear treed that are thriving up here.
Let's trade some varieties.
I like Black Eyed Peas they are like catfish they have a Earthly taste
I wonder if you could just freeze dry the beans fresh, not cooked, after shelling them??
I was wondering that too. I have such a small freezer there really isn’t space to put up much using it... it seems like freeze drying and storing in Mylar bags would be more space saving than having them canned too. I’d also be curious about how long they would keep freeze dried cooked vs raw, or if it would make any difference.
@@tacticalllama9211 I’ve been researching this and it’s seems most people do not have much success unless they are cooked first. Also it takes a very long time between 45-50 hrs and then there was still some failure. Seems it is much more Difficult to get all the moisture out if raw. Im freezing for now and will probably cook and freeze dry later.
@@preppedforeternityhomestea2848 thanks that is definitely good and will save me a potentially failed 50 hours! Yikes
Miss Wanda how long do you cook your peas before you can them.
I raw pack when canning
I have been canning pink eyed purple hulls would like to try red ripper
A spoonful of bacon grease always makes the beans taste better
First time growing Red Rippers ..Misplaced package and b4 getting to educate myself . I picked them green ! They're 10 inches long . Am i able to put them up or have i lost them ?
do you have to parboil the purple hull peas before you freeze them?
So can you just freeze them, or do you have to blanch them first ? I remember my grandparents saying years back you have to blanch them first. I love purple hull. I didn't know you could just freeze them. That would save time.
Either way will work
Y'all ever get a black bell pepper? I'm getting green ones on there too, but that poor old black still seems to be hanging in there and slowly growing.
I enjoyed the video but I wish the camera was zoomed in more!
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I'm up north and I grow field peas all the time without a greenhouse.
Its funny out here in California field peas are not commercially produced. So I get mine from ceryain ztores by Camilla.
Your sound quality is so strange recently. What is different?
Probably the phone. It is 2 years old
I'd like to buy some Field pea seeds from you
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Are these the kind of peas that you can put on a string and they're called leather breeches.
No
Freeze dried may be amazing but it will never be in my budget. I do dehydrate and can.
Do you dehydrate them and just store them like they were dried beans?
I dehydrate ( let them dry on vine) and store as dried beans and I also can some picked fresh
Leftovers! Always cook more making planned leftovers