These sweet morsels add a pop of color to your plate and have a nice crisp texture-that is, when cooked correctly. If you're like us, sometimes those peas end up mushy, bland and sad-looking.

Mushy peas are the modern take on the dried peas phenomenon (blue boilers), and while they make me equally joyous, I take a quicker option of garden peas and mint, boiled and pulsed in a food ...