A follow up on my last post – tonight I made some quick veggie soup – everything homegrown. Beef stock, pumpkin and potatoes from storage plus green madagascar beans, perennial leeks, parsley and celeriac from the garden.
I have just discovered Madagascar beans this year and I am a big fan. I love to get the young beans out of the pod and just fry them up lightly. Would love baked bean recipe please Lucy. Another dried bean I have just tried with success is the black bean or turtle Bean. They are left on the vine until all the pods are dry. So it is a one-pick process. I use them to make a black bean chilli
I will add a bit more info on the black bean – they are an annual but do not grow nowhere near as vigorous as the Madagascar bean, so a light frame is sufficient or a few stakes
Madagascar Beans certainly need a strong trellis – something I’ll work on for next year as I’ve been growing them over the chook yard and it makes it too dark. Maybe that’s why my chooks have been very slow to start laying again! I’ll get back to you on a baked bean recipe. I had a good one, but haven’t made them for years!
I still haven’t done a baked beans recipe with the dried beans, however I made these for breakfast one day recently. basically tomato and onion and Herbs and some of the green freshly podded beans. Really tasty.
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