10/01/2005 06:53:00 PM|||Karen Hagen|||

I first tried mushy peas in Sir Winston's Fish and Chips in Edmonton. It is a traditional fish & chips restautant on 51st Ave in Edmonton just west of Gateway Boulevard/Calgary trail (assuming its still there). Dad, Dan and I had tried to go there on several occations, but they seemed to have the strangest business hours and were closed Mondays and all day until 6 or 7 pm. Anyway, after several months of trying we finally did make it to this restaurant. The fish and chips were excellent of course, but we were intrigued about the menu item called "mushy peas". Having never heard of this before, Dan and I decided to try it as a kind of "extreme eating", expecting the worst. My Dad, being English, of course new what they were and said "they're good, those". So, Dan's order of mushy peas arrived, and to our surprise they were very good!

After this, we tried mushy peas whenever available. We visited another fish & chip shop downtown Edmonton called "Back Home". As the story goes, it was opened by some people from the Maritimes for the truckers who had driven almost all the way across the country from the Martimes to Edmonton, so they could have fish like "back home". And on our recent trip to England, of course, we had some too.

Last night we tried (and failed) to make fish and chips ourselves. The main problem was that we do not have a deep fryer, and such equipment is essential for the chips and for proper fried fish too. We used canola oil in a very large pot (and were careful to avoid oil-fire related disasters...) but the chips took forever to cook and broke up into little pieces and the fish got cold. But, the mushy peas were great. Dan got the recipe from the "Naked Chef". The link to the recipe is here...

Minty mushy Peas

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