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Black-eyed peas or beans???

So today at lunch I had some fabulous curried black eyed beans--so I did a vegweb recipe search and I found black eyed peas but not beans. are they the same thing or is there a black eyed pea and a black eyed bean???

Pretty sure they're the same thing.

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Pretty sure they're the same thing.

Pretty sure??? My life can't hinge on pretty sure! Damn it man I need answers! *tee hee hee* just kidding--thanks Secondbase!

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DAMN, WHY YOU GETTIN' ALL CRAZY?!?!?! haha.

I know black eyed peas are used in many carribean curries, so I'm 90-something% sure it's the same thing.

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So why are they called black eyed peas if their beans????

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b32/spiffywonderboy/blackeyed_peas.gif

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I don't know, but my local safeway stocks them by the green peas and not with the beans. WTF is up with that? I just wanted to grab some real quick so I could make the Black Eyed Pea Quinoa Crouquettes out of VWAV. Almost walked out without any when I didn't find any with the canned beans

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Ok folks. They are called Black -eyed PEAS .People of color( of which I am one) call them peas. Never heard of them as beans :o. You can buy them canned or dried . Have fun cooking with them. I have VWAV ...just might have to try that recipe. I have made them curried and the turned out great . Blessing!

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From Wikipedia

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The black-eyed pea, also called black-eyed bean, blackeye, 眉豆 (Cant. mei4 dao6), lobiya (ar: لوبيا), rongi, feijão-frade, Alasandee (Kannada name) or chawli/chawle, is a subspecies of the cowpea, grown for its medium-sized edible bean, which mutates easily giving rise to a number of varieties, the common commercial one called the California Blackeye being pale-colored with a prominent black spot. The currently accepted botanical name is Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata, although previously it was classified in the genus Phaseolus. Vigna unguiculata subsp. dekindtiana is the wild relative and Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis is the related asparagus bean. Other beans of somewhat similar appearance, such as the "Frijol ojo de cabra" ("Goat's eye bean") of Northern Mexico are sometimes incorrectly called "black eyed peas" and vice versa.
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Them's shaped like a bean, so I calls dem a bean. To me there's three basic legume shapes: bean, pea and lentil. All very different and simplistically characteristic.  ;) :P 8)

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From Wikipedia

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The black-eyed pea, also called black-eyed bean, blackeye, 眉豆 (Cant. mei4 dao6), lobiya (ar: لوبيا), rongi, feijão-frade, Alasandee (Kannada name) or chawli/chawle.....

Oooh, never realised they were the same as lobhia........mmm had some lovely lobhia mushrooms from a local indian recently.  They were really yummy!!  Maybe I'll try to make black eyed peas soon.

Hmmm, bit of a pointless post! Nevermind.

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oh heliamphora, what about all those dal beans and their wacky shapes? your theory isn't holding up from my bean/lentil/peas collection!!

DAMN, WHY YOU GETTIN' ALL CRAZY?!?!?! haha.

Hmm-mm-mm, which type o' dal beans?  :hrmm:  ^-^

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Peas, beans, lentils--I loves me some legumes!! And this thread made me sad because black-eyed peas are not available here anymore. They were, several years back, but I think they just didn't sell in this part of Spain because they're "too different."

This morning I found lollo rosso and bianco for the first time in my veg shop. And if you bought them you had to buy one of each! No one who was in the shop "knew what to do with it" and even the sales girl said she'd never tried it and never intended to!!

Omnis are so sad and limited. Even (or perhaps especially) the "ubervores" who "only buy the best."

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What are lollo rosso and bianco? And what do you do with them???

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What are lollo rosso and bianco? And what do you do with them???

A type of lettuce that is very yuppy and up-market in parts of the US ( think "arugula", "rocket" and other upwardly mobile greens.)  ^-^ The lollos are very tender, mild curly leaves; one plain green and the other tipped with dark purple. They do tend to be sandy, as they are grown in sandy soil, but a good rinse in salted water takes care of that. (Let them float upside down in the salted water and the sand will go to the bottom.)

Personally I put them in salad with tomatoes, stirfried asparagus etc. Flavour is mild and delicate.

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Sounds yummy! I'll have to look for them at WHole Foods :)

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Oddly enough I have a bag at home of Black Eyed Peas but have never eaten them.  I should make some up in honor of this thread!

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Oddly enough I have a bag at home of Black Eyed Peas but have never eaten them.  I should make some up in honor of this thread!

Yes you should! Then you should tell us what recipie you used so we can try it too :)

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I had some black-eyed peas today - they were yummy!

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