Grandma's Creamed Peas and Potatoes

Going to the garden with my Grandma was a real experience, although we worked hard to tend the garden and gather the vegetables, she always had a wonderful story about the meal we were about to make with the incredible vegetables from the garden. When we would dig the baby new potatoes and gather the green peas, she would always tell me how her Mother, my Great Grandma would make a lovely cream sauce from the fresh cream and butter to pour over the new baby potatoes and fresh crisp peas. This is the recipe that has been passed down through our family through the years and it is so delicious, it taste just like my Grandma's from the garden to the table.

We Start With Fresh Peas From The Garden

or

Frozen Peas

Next We Add Fresh New Potatoes

Boiled In A Salty Water

Add The Blanched Peas and The Boiled Potatoes To A Lovely White Sauce

Grandma's Creamed Peas and Potatoes
Miz Helen's Kitchen
4 cups fresh or frozen green peas
10 to 12 small new potatoes,skin on
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
1 cup whole milk
1 cup heavy cream or half and half
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
6 tablespoon fresh mint chopped
Directions
In a medium stew pot, pour in all the peas and cover with salty water. Blanch the peas for 3 minutes and remove from the pot to drain.
In a medium stew pot, pour washed new potatoes into the pot. Cover the potatoes with salty water and cook on medium heat until the potatoes are tender. Remove the potatoes from the salty water and set aside.
In a large stew pot, melt 3 tablespoons butter, add 3 tablespoons flour and mix until most of the lumps are gone, ( my Grandma said some lumps were ok).
Stir in the whole milk and the heavy cream or half and half, stir in until completely blended, cooking over medium heat, until the sauce thickens.
Add the salt, pepper, and nutmeg, stir well. Add in the peas and potatoes and mix gently with the sauce.
Add the chopped mint and serve hot.
Recipe Tip:
If you want a heavy sauce, double the sauce. If you want a lighter sauce, add more whole milk to thin the sauce.
Enjoy!
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Thanks so much for stopping by to enjoy this Garden to Table dish. It always brings back so many memories when I can share one of our precious family recipes with all of you. Hope you are having a great week and making some wonderful memories for your family!

Peace and Joy

Miz Helen
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