Food: Creamy shrimp pasta with mint and peas

Shelling peas is synonymous with summer.
Raise your hand if you spent many days of your summertime youth sitting in the shade with your siblings, or cousins, shelling pail after pail of peas freshly picked from the garden plot. As we sipped on lemonade, one by one the peas would fill up bowls, ever so slowly. I swear time stands still when there are peas to be shelled.
Back then, I’m sure I thought that dealing with the peas was a nuisance, as it seemed like a task that was never ending, a