More fun with food
May. 11th, 2011 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
klwilliamsGenerally when I get home from work I goof for a while before I fix dinner, just to relax. Then when I start to get hungry I go fix something. Tonight I'd decided to try something new, since I'd received a bag in the last two boxes of vegetables. So, ready with a recipe from the internet and starting to get hungry, I got out my two bags of fava beans. I can hear you laughing already.
So how hard could it be, sauteing some beans? First, though, I needed to get the beans out of the pod. Unlike peas, these guys are loosely spaced and *hang on* for dear life. I finally got the hang of splitting the pods open, but then it was a fight to get the beans out. Next, I put the beans in boiling salty water for three minutes, then put the hot beans in ice water. Ready to saute now? Nope. Now I needed to pull the loose hangy skin off *each* *bean*. Each *cold* bean. This was not quick.
Finally, however, my two bags of beans had become my two small handsful of beans, but I was ready to saute, in oil *and* butter. (The recipe said so.) I also added freshly minced garlic, then cooked for seven minutes. The result? Marvelous. Mmmmmmmmmm.
So how hard could it be, sauteing some beans? First, though, I needed to get the beans out of the pod. Unlike peas, these guys are loosely spaced and *hang on* for dear life. I finally got the hang of splitting the pods open, but then it was a fight to get the beans out. Next, I put the beans in boiling salty water for three minutes, then put the hot beans in ice water. Ready to saute now? Nope. Now I needed to pull the loose hangy skin off *each* *bean*. Each *cold* bean. This was not quick.
Finally, however, my two bags of beans had become my two small handsful of beans, but I was ready to saute, in oil *and* butter. (The recipe said so.) I also added freshly minced garlic, then cooked for seven minutes. The result? Marvelous. Mmmmmmmmmm.
