Comments on: Beans for the Undeserving http://aweebitofcooking.co.uk/2008/08/24/beans-for-the-undeserving/ A Scottish food blog Sat, 26 May 2012 16:18:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: saphire http://aweebitofcooking.co.uk/2008/08/24/beans-for-the-undeserving/#comment-12433 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:51:34 +0000 http://teach77.wordpress.com/?p=590#comment-12433 Hello Wendy,
I write from Germany.
Just found your pictures and recipe.
In my garden I plant several rows of fava beans each year, for we all enjoy to eat this type of beans.
They are absolutely deliscious when they are half ripe, when they are still tender, long as a finger and a half.
They are washed, ends removed, each cut into about 5 to 7 parts.
In very little lightly salted water they are cooked, only until they are “al dente”.
Then they are drained, the water is not thrown away but used later, for it contains lots of vitamins.
I cut two slices of smoked bacon into small pieces, then ad a cut up small onion, put this in the pot and let this become crisp, add a spoon full of flour under constant stirring and ad the cooking water. Season this with salt, pepper and add the herb savoury (genus satureja), preferably the fresh one.
You could add a little heavy cream.
Bet you like it.
Happy bean growing in 2011!

Saphire

]]> By: Wendy http://aweebitofcooking.co.uk/2008/08/24/beans-for-the-undeserving/#comment-5172 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:02:48 +0000 http://teach77.wordpress.com/?p=590#comment-5172 Susan – I know. It really is. :)

]]> By: Susan from Food Blogga http://aweebitofcooking.co.uk/2008/08/24/beans-for-the-undeserving/#comment-5163 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:24:00 +0000 http://teach77.wordpress.com/?p=590#comment-5163 I know you feel overtaken by the monster garden right now, but it’s really a wonderful problem to have! :)

]]> By: Wendy http://aweebitofcooking.co.uk/2008/08/24/beans-for-the-undeserving/#comment-5159 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:21:38 +0000 http://teach77.wordpress.com/?p=590#comment-5159 Susan – You’re so welcome. :)

Kittie – She most certainly is!

]]> By: kittie http://aweebitofcooking.co.uk/2008/08/24/beans-for-the-undeserving/#comment-5152 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:22:35 +0000 http://teach77.wordpress.com/?p=590#comment-5152 These look amazing – your colleague must be frustrated indeed!

]]> By: Susan http://aweebitofcooking.co.uk/2008/08/24/beans-for-the-undeserving/#comment-5148 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:51:18 +0000 http://teach77.wordpress.com/?p=590#comment-5148 Yes, Wendy, those beanie babies do look cozy!

Thanks for the peek inside the pod and your garden plot. : )

]]> By: Wendy http://aweebitofcooking.co.uk/2008/08/24/beans-for-the-undeserving/#comment-5135 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:49:01 +0000 http://teach77.wordpress.com/?p=590#comment-5135 Pam – It really, really does!

JennDZ – Thanks!

Holler – Wonderful. :)

Lucy – Aren’t they? Wish I had a blanket that soft.

Christina – Ooooh, will most definitely be trying this out soon.

Pia – It seems you are right!

]]> By: Pia http://aweebitofcooking.co.uk/2008/08/24/beans-for-the-undeserving/#comment-5134 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:31:59 +0000 http://teach77.wordpress.com/?p=590#comment-5134 Oh there are many things that do quite well left to their own devices I think, one shouldn’t overdo it…:) your veggies look mouthwatering indeed!

]]> By: Christina http://aweebitofcooking.co.uk/2008/08/24/beans-for-the-undeserving/#comment-5127 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:48:57 +0000 http://teach77.wordpress.com/?p=590#comment-5127 One of the things I love about fava beans is the down comforters in which they sleep. The inside of the bean pods is just so fluffy!

Have you tried them whole on the grill yet, smeared with olive oil? The smoky beans you will pop out after grilling the pods will stand forever in your taste-memory–just a dusting of salt on the beans and you’ll be wishing you had them all year. Yum. I’m salivating just thinking of it.

I hope your first week back went well.

]]> By: Lucy http://aweebitofcooking.co.uk/2008/08/24/beans-for-the-undeserving/#comment-5126 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:48:27 +0000 http://teach77.wordpress.com/?p=590#comment-5126 Very cosy little sweeties!

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