Seed Vegetables

Vegetables that fall into the seed category usually grow in pods or husks. These include beans, peas, corn, rice, and chestnuts.

All may be grown to maturity and then harvested and cooked from a dry state. But we love fresh new peas and young green beans. French chefs wax happy over their treatment of green beans and certainly they can hold their own when it comes to peas. But about limas and corn they are not really knowledgeable. They seem to prefer rice pilaf to plain boiled rice, and their famous cassoulet, made from dried beans and meats, is in the lamb section.