I hated butter beans as as child and didnāt eat them as an adult until OH took me to Rick Steinās place and we had roasted cod on a bed of butterbean mash ... it was wonderful ... then we went to Jamie Oliverās Fifteen at Watergate Bay and had braised octopus with butter beans ... I was smitten ... I love them now. Just not plain boiled as Ma used to do them šĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't like butter beans, they remind me of school dinners and I don't like the texture. I love baked beans, maybe it's because of all the sugar in the tomato sauce!
Come in for a cuppa, skip loading is thirsty work, a lot of the stuff is upstairs and bags of books and videos are heavy. Why did I never throw away old duvets and pillows? I still have all the children's old childhood ones and 3 of them are over 40Ā
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I don't think I'd like them plain boiled either @Dovefromabove.Ā Ā I've found tinned "pois du Cap" here @floralies but which look similar but are thinner and taste different.Ā As you're so near to Spain maybe you can nip over and buy some Gigantes?
Round here the local bean and dietary staple is the moguette (poor peasant society till very recently and much persecuted in wars of religion and by Napoleon and the revolutionaries) .Ā Looks and behaves like a cannellini bean to me - another one I can't get here along with black-eyed peas and black beans.
@Dovefromabove, how spooky, I have had both those dishes in those restaurants.
I know it's not environmentally friendly, but I have just had a bonfire, very therapeutic, I think bonfires must be linked in our psyches to when we were hunter gatherers.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I love a good bonfire but can't stand the smell on my clothes afterwards which is one reason I don't like whisky of any kind.Ā Tried the "cleaner" irish versions too but really only good as firelighter fuel.
I love a good burning @punkdoc. Not sure what that says about me.Ā It's the texture for me too [the beans] but the very sight of them turns my stomach.Ā Indeed @floralies. I'm hoping for a good outcome, but you never knowĀ Nice walk - remarkably ar**hole freeĀ [always a bonus] and dry, but there's a very heavy sky which is giving me a sore head. Birds have been very absent in the garden too, which is a worry. I might get some more tidying and sorting outside later if it stays reasonable. I still have another clem to put in. I've gone clematis daft recently.Ā
My sis sent me this yesterday - for anyone who watches those 'bailiffs' progs. Made me laugh
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Dovefromabove, how spooky, I have had both those dishes in those restaurants.
Great minds @punkdoc š Ā I always thought we have a lot in common šĀ
As for bonfires... very cathartic ... Iāve a feeling President Biden may be building a large one on the White House lawn in late January ... and calling the decorators and furniture restorers in šØ
Glad the heating is fixed ... what about the car and the broadband?
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Looks like it is about to hammer down here but has been like that for hours. I managed a couple of hours in the garden this morning - nothing significant but potted on some cuttings and re-potted some of the bare roots I got the other day. Bigger pots with some bonemeal added. More collection of leaves and dragged that flaming stone a bit farther up the garden, By echium, it's a big 'un
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OH took me to Rick Steinās place and we had roasted cod on a bed of butterbean mash ... it was wonderful ... then we went to Jamie Oliverās Fifteen at Watergate Bay
and had braised octopus with butter beans ... I was smitten ... I love them now. Just not plain boiled as Ma used to do them šĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Come in for a cuppa, skip loading is thirsty work, a lot of the stuff is upstairs and bags of books and videos are heavy. Why did I never throw away old duvets and pillows? I still have all the children's old childhood ones and 3 of them are over 40Ā
Round here the local bean and dietary staple is the moguette (poor peasant society till very recently and much persecuted in wars of religion and by Napoleon and the revolutionaries) .Ā Looks and behaves like a cannellini bean to me - another one I can't get here along with black-eyed peas and black beans.
I know it's not environmentally friendly, but I have just had a bonfire, very therapeutic, I think bonfires must be linked in our psyches to when we were hunter gatherers.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Unfortunately, we're not allowed them here.
It's the texture for me too [the beans] but the very sight of them turns my stomach.Ā
Indeed @floralies. I'm hoping for a good outcome, but you never knowĀ
Nice walk - remarkably ar**hole freeĀ [always a bonus] and dry, but there's a very heavy sky which is giving me a sore head. Birds have been very absent in the garden too, which is a worry. I might get some more tidying and sorting outside later if it stays reasonable. I still have another clem to put in. I've gone clematis daft recently.Ā
My sis sent me this yesterday - for anyone who watches those 'bailiffs' progs. Made me laugh
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I always thought we have a lot in common šĀ
Glad the heating is fixed ... what about the car and the broadband?
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
FWIW I'm a big fan of all beans and burnings
Looks like it is about to hammer down here but has been like that for hours. I managed a couple of hours in the garden this morning - nothing significant but potted on some cuttings and re-potted some of the bare roots I got the other day. Bigger pots with some bonemeal added. More collection of leaves and dragged that flaming stone a bit farther up the garden, By echium, it's a big 'un
More pretending to work from home this afternoon
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...