The U-Pick item at our CSA this week was sugar snap peas. I have fond memories of picking these in our garden growing up and eating one for every one I put in the basket. They are like vegetable candy, you know, if candy tasted like vegetables. I was excited to take Colin out into the fields at the farm and fill up our little basket. As it turns out, Colin was excited to be out in the fields as well because as I was trying to balance while crouching down, he was leaning as far back as possible in the Ergo to look around. This made the whole balancing thing a bit of a challenge, but totally worth it. And I snuck a few snap peas straight from the vine into my mouth. I am a big dork and always get extra happy about cooking vegetables I picked myself, and go on and on to my taste testers about how they couldn't be any fresher and are totally perfect. This very simple salad met with good reviews, although the consensus was that they were extra garl...
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