The pea in all its glory #naturaljanines

I am going to try to make a serial of story's about veges and fruits. Mythology, fairytale , ingredients, health, and a recepe.

I hope you will all comment with a recipe of your own hand or country.

I will start with a fairy tale...

A long time ago when there were still plenty of princes and princesses, there was one prince who did not find a fitting princes, in his surrounding there were not that many, and the ones which were they were to ugly or to old.

Everyone knew that real fine princesses were a bit of moaning cows, shoes to small, to much work for a princes, and ever such bad sleepers, there may not be any light in the room, and the window has to be open and god forbid that the mattress was to hard or had lumbs, in the time of straw mattresses they had not that much demands, because they had to shake up their own beds, and as we all know they are much too lazy.

But anyway the prince did want a real princes and his father kicked him under the backside to get him in gear, how will you know it is a real princess, he asked his dad. The king answered, she will have to sleep on 20 mattresses and we put a pea in the middle of the bottom one, because all princesses are always moaning a real fine princes will definitely demand the next morning an other bed.

And so they started wit all the princesses, or the girls who said they were princesses. They had to climb on a ladder to get to the top mattress. One girl princess with funny curls fall down and broke her ankle, she tried with teary eyes to get the compassion of the prince, but he called his butler who brought the girl to the hospital, an other girl was wearing such a short skirt, that you could see her edge of lace from her underwear, the prince liked that, but not for a life time. He promised him self to have a nice night out with her when the real moaning princess would not show up.

That day on the end of the raw was a small very tiny girl, the prince did not see her before, and he did not give her much of a chance she looked a bit wild, her curly hair a in knots, bare feet, no she did not look like a princes, he already walked a way when it was her turn to climb the ladder. Big was his surprise when he turned around and he saw the girl on top of the bed ! she done that quicker than anyone else .

(picture taken from : http://www.wonen-maken-leven.nl/2015/12/fibrolog-de-prinses-op-de-erwt.html

At the dinner table he told his dad, he said ; the last girl is a no hope too, tomorrow night i will spend the night with the girl with the short skirt and the band of lace.

But when the sun came up he woke up of a clear voice singing, and it was a pleasure to hear. He saw the girl nearly jumping from the top, she was down in no time. She saw the prince and said, oke, i slept i need my breakfast now, i demand yogurt and fresh orange juice ... The prince laughed out loud and said how did you sleep you are so happy ? Knowing he had to send her home.

She said i slept fantastic, your mattresses are of a first quality and your bed linen smells so nice and is so smooth. The prince started laughing and wanted to start to call the butler, but she said , but you have to know one thing, your cleaner must have forget to sweep under the mattresses, there was a lump in the middle, when she saw the laugh on the princes face faded away and he stared at her with open mouth. She quickly said but it did not matter, i am so small i bend my self around it, and the bed was big enough.
Only we have to ask the maid to make that in order before sleeping tonight.

A bit disappointed about the date he was going to miss that evening, but happy he found his bride, he took his new bride to his dad and said, may i introduce you to my princess?
The king cried his eyes out in happiness and ordered champagne for the whole country and everyone lives happy ever after.
This is the story from Hans Christian Andersen spiced up with ingredients of my own braincupboard.

Personal i put them around my livingroom to let the little knowns fall of the stairs, because i really would like to see them in real. :-)

The pea

The pea is a real climber, he needs something to hold on to, he carries around June beautiful white flowers and there are about 1000 different kinds of peas. They are full of proteins. They are excellent to replace meat, because their ingredients.
Full of BCAA ( Branched-Chain Amino Acids) are they seen as a good way to also loose some weight. Also extreme good for sporters because it helps your sugar level after heavy trainig. Therby we also know it will help diabetic !
vitamines : A, B1, B2, B3, B6, B11 E and +++ K
A pea and all legume leguminous vegetable have got a phyto oestrogeen (female hormone estrogen ? ) ideal for middle age woman.

There is loads more to know about the pea, when there are questions i would like to try to answer ! :-)

I would like to close this article of with a recipe that you can use cold as well as hot.

250 grams of Boiled peas
a small cup of yoghurt
1 soup spoon with coriander
2 soup spoons mint
small clove of shredded garlic
and 1 spoon with grated young cheese

Put it al in a cooking pan and put it on a slow heat once it is steaming you puree it with a mixer, when it is to stif, you can always add more yoghurt, or some cream.

Warm lovely with all kinds of meet ideal with lamb and lovely with chicken.

Cold fantastic as a dip for chips or cubes of roasted bread.

When you do try a recipe let me know what you thought of it.

I would love a lot of interaction on this herbal food blogs, so if you want to resteem i will be very thankful