Bananapeas!

Shopping for Thanksgiving I came across some beautiful organic English Peas. This is an impulse buy for Grammie Flava since peas were not on my grocery list. Did we mention Grammie Flava is a Chef? No? Well I am. I always tell my students recipes are guidelines...so are grocery lists!

When I go to Whole Foods with a grocery list, it is a guideline to what I need. Usually it will say onions, carrots, my staples; but it will also say, fruits and veggies. This is of course to take advantage of the fresh, organic lovelies Whole Foods, the farmers market or a road side stand might have. Hence the impulse buy of peas.

Baby Flava (BF) loves peas. Peas for Thanksgiving it is. Hmmm, but I also had two bananas getting very ripe....peas and bananas, why not. I rinsed the peas and steamed them in just enough water to cover. Once steam comes out of lid turn off, wait a minute then pour everything into the blender--don't overcook. Put the lid on the blender and if you have a center piece on the lid, open it a bit to let the steam out. Blend and add bananas.

When I am visiting Mama Flava and BF we put anything pureed in ice cube trays, freeze and pop out into a ziplock bag. Then you are ready to pop a few cubes into the microwave, zap and you are good to go. At home I don't have any ice cube trays. What to do?

Have you seen those ice cube tray/swizzle sticks? Make cute ice cube sticks for people to put in drinks. Why not make BananaPea Swizzle Sticks. BF is teething; hand her a frozen Bananapea and voila--BF is feeding herself, getting some soothing cold on her gums and we've introduced a new texture and temperature.