What are You Eating from the Garden?

[flowerbug]

i've yet to meet a bean i did not like cooked as a dry bean. by now that's several hundred varieties and probably a few hundred more selections and discards.

some are certainly not as good as others for hummus, but i'm pretty happy with chickpeas, i don't even bother grinding them up any more as i like more texture and lumps anyways. just mix the ingredients right in the beans after pouring them over the chickpeas and eat up. there is usually lemon juice in the fridge and olive oil on hand, plus garlic. i consider tahini and sesame seeds as optional if we have them, but by now i'm so used to doing without i don't miss them. it's just different. at times a dollop of peanut butter is close enough. other times a shot of hot sauce...

 

[Branching Out]

i've yet to meet a bean i did not like cooked as a dry bean. by now that's several hundred varieties and probably a few hundred more selections and discards.

some are certainly not as good as others for hummus, but i'm pretty happy with chickpeas, i don't even bother grinding them up any more as i like more texture and lumps anyways. just mix the ingredients right in the beans after pouring them over the chickpeas and eat up. there is usually lemon juice in the fridge and olive oil on hand, plus garlic. i consider tahini and sesame seeds as optional if we have them, but by now i'm so used to doing without i don't miss them. it's just different. at times a dollop of peanut butter is close enough. other times a shot of hot sauce...

This is helpful information, because yesterday I was suggesting to a girlfriend that almost any snap bean that gets too big and produces seed seems to be able to be cooked and enjoyed as a dry bean. I tried cooking dried Scarlet Runner beans for the first time recently, and they were really delicious too.

My beany hummus is still tasting great after a few days. And I know a guy like you who doesn't blend his chickpeas either. He cooks them and then uses a potato masher to mash them right in the pot. Good stuff!

 

[Branching Out]

A refreshing breakfast of watermelon Winter King and Queen. The conditions were far too wet for them in October and I think the flavour was diluted as a result-- but it's still a treat to have homegrown melon in December. I set aside some of the seeds for replanting next year.

 

[Dahlia]

A refreshing breakfast of watermelon Winter King and Queen. The conditions were far too wet for them in October and I think the flavour was diluted as a result-- but it's still a treat to have homegrown melon in December. I set aside some of the seeds for replanting next year.

That's really lucky!

 

[Branching Out]

We grilled up bacon cheeseburgers tonight with Gustav's Salad lettuce, as well as a salad of mixed greens out of the garden (the tomatoes and cucumbers were from the grocery store). A very tasty supper.