Other ways to eat runner beans

[tilts]

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.

[tilts]

[redimp]

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.

[tilts]

What a brilliant idea! Thanks. ;D

[redimp]

After processing - sieve it - I am currently picking stringy bits from my stringless runners out of my teeth.

[terrace max]

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!

[Noozan]

Runner bean chutney is tasty!   :D

[tim]

Are we talking of beans that are too tough to cook in the normal way?

[tilts]

Yep, tough as boot leather with huge beans.

[tim]

Make a necklace of them??

[moonbells]

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

[tilts]

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...........

[wardy]

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? 

[terrace max]

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...

[tim]

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

[wattapain]

Tim, that looks a brilliant piece of kit. I want one. Who makes it  where can I get one please?
Terri  ;) :D

[tim]

See my PM = Tim

[moonbells]

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...

[Mrs Ava]

ooo Tim, like an electric version of my mooli masher thingy.  Very handy indeed!

[wattapain]

Tim, ta for that - will definitely look into it.
Terri

[tim]

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!