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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: tilts on September 18, 2005, 13:18:41
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Hello
I have just returned from the allotment after being absent for 10 days, to find that most of the runner beans have gone over ~ large, woody. Although some are discolouring and i will use them for next year, there are so many i wondered if anyone knew of a recipe, are they ok to eat in other way? It seems such a waste to let them go.
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I am making runner bean soup - lots of runners, onion, garlic, potato, water, veggie stock, bay leaves. So far seems to taste nice - has a sweet edge.
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What a brilliant idea! Thanks. ;D
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After processing - sieve it - I am currently picking stringy bits from my stringless runners out of my teeth.
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Talk about coincidence! We made almost the same soup for dinner today...except I added a bit of turnip too. Plus a bit of coriander and chilli powder. It was pretty good!
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Runner bean chutney is tasty! :D
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Are we talking of beans that are too tough to cook in the normal way?
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Yep, tough as boot leather with huge beans.
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Make a necklace of them??
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See
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1565709,00.html
which has a soup recipe in.
The veggie version looks very tempting to me...
moonbells
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I'll follow the soup recipes, they sound great, the one adding chorizo is right up my allotment.
Whilst the soup is brewing, I need to make that necklace anyone else made one ~ any good ideas ~ meanwhile can anyone help me uploading pictures I have a lovely pair of ...... melons, 3 infact & I need help, when do I pick them, my grandchildren think that they can only get them in the supermarkets not in my greenhouse so i really want them to get a taste...........
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Tilts Dan the man has to give you the facility to post photos but you have to pay upfront. You can use the donate button on the top right of the screen and you can pay by paypal. Then Dan will give you the "additional" option to allow you to post photos. Others use Photobucket etc to post pics which is a bit more versatile but I manage without :)
Does the soup make the old runner beans tender? I have loads of oversized runners which look as tough as leather. Does the soup tenderise them?
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Does the soup make the old runner beans tender? I have loads of oversized runners which look as tough as leather. Does the soup tenderise them?
You might be in the seed saving department if they're really far gone...
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I like Matthew Fort's ideas. Most tempted.
Trouble is, since our Kenwood (with sieve) packed up, I have jibbed at the idea of sieving celery & stringy beans. No liquidiser or processor can cope.
But today - eureka!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/sieve.jpg
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Tim, that looks a brilliant piece of kit. I want one. Who makes it where can I get one please?
Terri ;) :D
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See my PM = Tim
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Tim - if you want something slightly more eco and with possibly a finer mesh (as it's got to get out tomato seeds) try
http://www.seedsofitaly.sagenet.co.uk/equipment.htm
and look at the passata machine. It's cheaper too. I'm still dithering as to whether to get one...
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ooo Tim, like an electric version of my mooli masher thingy. Very handy indeed!
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Tim, ta for that - will definitely look into it.
Terri
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Noted!
I'm just waiting for assurance that a 2mm sieve will deal with toms. I doubt it. Money saved!!
And yes - the hand-cranked thing - our US one works fine - when you have it all together - & have strength, & wash up the 7 or 8 bits of it. Electric - with 2 bits - just sounded so tempting!
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While waiting for an answer, I've also asked them how a 'powerful 25W motor' can do more than power a light bulb!!
Emma - does a Mouli get tom seeds out?
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Tim (and anyone else interested) I just cracked and bought myself the Passata machine. Turns out that Seeds of Italy is not far from where I work so I saved myself the postage and got it sooner!
Very simple mechanism: spring-loaded paddles push the tomatoes round against a mesh with holes which look to be about 1.5mm diameter. Any skin or seeds pop out down a chute while the pulp and juice shoot off down a second chute and the paddles push in to pass a barrier so the skins don't keep going round. The chap at SofI (Paulo) said you can put the skins through a second time to extract the most pulp. To clean, the whole lot comes to bits and goes in the dishwasher apart from the springloading bit, which also comes to bits to rinse under the tap. It's quite large (foot square box) but a large chunk of the space is the tray for collecting the passata. You need a separate bowl to collect the skins and the whole lot sticks to the worktop with one of those vacuum seals.
I hope to try it out over the weekend!
moonbells
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......makes me wonder if an ordinary juicer will do the job for tomatoes, they normally have a very fine mesh type seive attached, don't they?
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'Juicers' tend to give you juice, rather than pulp (ie purée)?
Good description, Moonbells! I'm still hooked on the thing doing the work for me. But I'm listening!
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This sounds a interesting thread. I like the Idea of the pulper. I suppose you could use it to take the seeds out of raspberries and blackberies also. This means you can make seedles jams :D Yummy Raspbery and blackberry Jam ;D
Keep us updated folks on how these things test out :)
The_Snail
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'Juicers' tend to give you juice, rather than pulp (ie purée)?
Good description, Moonbells! I'm still hooked on the thing doing the work for me. But I'm listening!
Well I just had a play. Reduced another pile of toms to four jamjars of passata, which got boiled for 20 mins so I hope are nice and sterile now.
First pass squashes the tomatoes and gets out mostly juice and some pulp.
Second pass gets out a lot of pulp. The smaller seeds do escape through - if you're very fussy about seeds them you can put the resultant passata through a sieve manually, but it's a *lot* easier to do than pushing the unsquashed pulp and rather defeats the object (unless you're doing cherries: see below!).
It was dead easy to do. Handle turns easily and is fun to do. I think it's even safe for small fingers thanks to the popping paddles.
I pulped some of all three types of tomato that I grew - sungella (orange), Cream Sausage (pale yellow plum passata tomato) and cherries (mix of gartenperle and tumbler). A lot of the cherry tom seeds went through. Some Sungellas did but the winner was of course the tom bred for passata - less by volume initially than the sungella but still out pulped it easily as it has fewer, larger seeds.
Bottled the yellow and orange passata. The red is in the fridge for tomorrow's lunch :)
And it was easy to take to bits and clean. Even the spindle for the spring bit popped open for washing.
moonbells
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See Recipes.
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This has been a really interesting thread! Yesterday I picked 9lbs of runners which were 'in the green' (the rest are for seeds). I made 'ruscan' soup, runners, onions, spuds, garlic, a few toms, a courgette or two ~ I processed the soup and then pushed it through a seive which took ages, but such a lot of string!! Next time I won't bother with the outer part which is so delicious young but use the beans instead.
Should I find one of these moulis that you are all talking about at a car boot, I might include the green bit!
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I am making runner bean soup - lots of runners, onion, garlic, potato, water, veggie stock, bay leaves. So far seems to taste nice - has a sweet edge.
Oh yes runner bean soup is nice! My mum made some with a batch of my surply and it was delicious.
You can also make chutney with runner beans.