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| Shelly beans, lettuce, beets, Oct 21, 2011 |
Very strange. I know that I wrote this post yesterday, and that I published it, yet it is not showing up on the blog nor is it in my list of posts or showing up as a draft. Just strangely disappeared. So if in the future you see this twice, you will know it is because the original post magically re-appeared somehow! (edit: I have discovered that somehow the missing post has appeared on my art blog. Have no idea at all how I managed to do that!)
Anyway this was my harvest Friday, 2 pounds, 6 ounces of Hopi Purple Pod beans that shelled out to 8 ounces of beans, 3 ounces of mixed baby lettuces and 1 pound 12 ounces of beets & greens, the roots alone were 10 ounces. All of it quite yummy! Oh I love my garden!
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| Fresh raw Hopi Purple Pod Beans |
Some folks are puzzled by the term 'shelly beans'. This refers to eating fresh those beans that otherwise you would eat as dry beans, like pintos, kidneys, black beans, etc. As you can see I picked some pods that weren't as mature as they should have been and the beans are a little small. The pink ones are about right. The ideal time to pick shelly beans is when they have completely filled the pod and the pod walls have thinned out but are not yet beginning to dry up.
Hello Mary,
ReplyDeleteHow do you use your fresh shelled beans? How do you store the extras? I imagine they would freeze well.
Hi Norma, yes you can freeze them or can them. But I don't usually have enough shellies at any given time to bother with. I just cover them with water, toss in a bay leaf, maybe onion and garlic and simmer till tender; about 20 min more or less. In high summer I add chilis and tomatoes and make garden chili.
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