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What's cooking?

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1LolaWalser
Muokkaaja: heinäkuu 10, 2019, 9:12 pm

Just can't let threads go to waste and obvs food first popped into my head for I am famished and yet can't face cooking... crackers & cheese, here I come.

2Lyndatrue
Muokkaaja: heinäkuu 10, 2019, 10:20 pm

What's cooking? How about lettuce sandwiches? Today, it'll be a sliced tomato, some ground lamb, some mayo, and wrapped in red lettuce leaves. Zucchini and butter on the side, and probably some cauliflower and celery (I love raw cauliflower). Nice glass of red wine, and plenty of water with dinner.

Thanks for reminding me; off to some food. :-}

3southernbooklady
heinäkuu 10, 2019, 11:15 pm

Pole beans. Seriously. I've been canning like mad and they still keep coming....

4LolaWalser
heinäkuu 10, 2019, 11:52 pm

Pole beans! What are they even...

Lettuce sandwiches--an inspiration. I'll pick up some red cabbage tomorrow.

5Lyndatrue
heinäkuu 11, 2019, 1:18 am

The lettuce sandwiches were delicious, as they usually are. I don't think I've ever used cabbage, but it sounds interesting to try.

Pole beans may be known to you as green beans. Some green beans are bush beans, and some are pole beans. I prefer the bush beans to the pole because I have lots of growing room, but either is good. I don't think I've ever seen wax beans, or any of the purple varieties, grow any way but as bush beans. (For reference, wax beans are yellow.)

Dang. I have photographs of both, right here on LT.





I really miss my vegetable garden.

6LolaWalser
heinäkuu 11, 2019, 1:21 am

Omg, such nice produce. I've never seen purple beans before.

7southernbooklady
heinäkuu 11, 2019, 10:16 am

I grow quite a lot of beans and peas in my garden. I'm sort of addicted to the names of the old heirloom varieties: "Rattlesnake Pole Beans," "Christmas Limas," "Dean's Purple Pod," "Chinese Red Noodle," "Scarlet Runners," "Iron and Clay Field Peas."

Every time something pisses me off on the news I take it out on the weeds in the garden, with the result that the garden has NEVER looked so good since Trump came into office.

Last night's dinner was a vegetarian version of salad nicoise.

8librorumamans
heinäkuu 11, 2019, 11:45 am

My parents grew backyard pole beans throughout my childhood. I (dimly) recall the beans themselves inside the pod being larger than those in green beans from the store. Is this so? or did we just pick them later than the farmers?

I've taken to ordering meal kits. Today I'll probably have hummus with tabbouleh and pita. The kits serve two; the first go at this dish on Monday was yummy.

9southernbooklady
heinäkuu 11, 2019, 12:28 pm

>8 librorumamans: Rattlesnake Pole Beans:



They do well where I live in the hot, humid American South.

10librorumamans
heinäkuu 11, 2019, 1:18 pm

>9 southernbooklady: I can see how they get the name. Similar in length to what we grew in our briefer season.

11Lyndatrue
heinäkuu 11, 2019, 2:54 pm

>8 librorumamans: Green beans in the store are usually either Kentucky Blue (or another similar variety whose name escapes my old brain at the moment). Bush beans are easier to harvest with a machine, or with the stoop labor of those poor souls in the fields. Pole beans do tend to grow longer than the bush beans, but it isn't just the variety. It's that there's more room on the branches.

I have grown multiple different varieties, and many of them are available in seed packets in either pole or bush varieties. The wasps are less likely to congregate on the bush varieties, and I prefer not getting run off on a hot day.

122wonderY
heinäkuu 11, 2019, 3:20 pm

>11 Lyndatrue: I'll bet it's all by machine now. Back in the 70's, I worked a summer for Green Giant, harvesting peas in Delaware. It was all large tractors and harvesters then. College students and Mexican guest workers were all on the same teams, though housed separately. Every payday, the migrant workers asked us to help them check their pay. Oddly, their checks were always short. Hmmmm.

13librorumamans
heinäkuu 11, 2019, 10:16 pm

>11 Lyndatrue: Thanks! I don't recall, though, wasps being a problem when we picked pole beans.

14MarthaJeanne
Muokkaaja: heinäkuu 12, 2019, 11:44 pm

>6 LolaWalser: Purple beans look cool until you cook them. They just go green then.

My beans are just getting going. I need to start harvesting.

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