Lettuce Cups with Herby Spring Peas & Goat Cheese

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    12

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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Flavors from the Farm: Vegetable-Forward Cookery to Share with Friends & Family

By Emma Hearst

Published 2024

  • About

Peas usher in the first glimpse of spring. Their season is short where we live, so we try to celebrate them as much as possible. The initial harvest is so petite and tender, there is hardly any need to subject them to heat. The peas become sweeter at their peak and then more fibrous as the season winds down. We use these older, more fibrous peas differently than the young, tender ones, often reserving them for soups. Depending on where your peas are in this life cycle, you may need to give