Why can't you use the dried beans for anything but seeds to go again? I am sure some one can tell me why.
I think you can eat them but they need boiling for ages, fine if they are in a slow cooked stew but not handy as a veg. :)
Dash I only put mine on the compost yesterday.
Runner bean Czar is often grown just for its white beans - as a substitute for butter beans. The pods taste good too but aren't as prolific as other varieties in my experience...
Who says you can't use them, I do, they are just as good as kidney beans in a chili for instance
This is what it says on http://www.foodsubs.com/Beans.html
Quotescarlet runner bean = runner bean Equivalents: One cup dried beans = 3 cups cooked beans. Notes: These large beans are very flavorful, and they work well in salads or as a side dish. Young pods can be cooked and served like green beans. Substitutes: lima beans OR Great Northern bean
and I am trying to find a link that says that Runners are the most flavourful of all beans. I certainly think so and have a freezer full of frozen podded beans to prove it. Furthermore, being a vegetarian, I regard myself as a bit of a bean expert.
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Quote from: redclanger on November 14, 2005, 18:56:16
Furthermore, being a vegetarian, I regard myself as a bit of a bean expert.
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Ooo, glad I'm not downwind of your plot RC! ;)
Can't you dry them on a windowsill and they will keep instead of freezing? Suppose I can't go in the compost heap for them now blast next year then!!
Quote from: caz and baz on November 14, 2005, 19:34:56
Quote from: redclanger on November 14, 2005, 18:56:16
Furthermore, being a vegetarian, I regard myself as a bit of a bean expert.
Ooo, glad I'm not downwind of your plot RC! ;)
<giggle> I made a tomato and haricot bean cassoulet in the slow cooker the other day, and caught the hubby raiding it on Sunday night.
I got home last night to find him complaining about the consequences - I just giggled - what on earth did he expect?
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