15 Tuesday Aug 2023
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on Saturday I took a photo of the veggie garden arch…
I’ve taken lots, but haven’t felt they were just right…
finally I figured out that I should take one from the front yard, lol…
looks pretty… maybe next year I won’t have the beans growing across the top, where I can’t reach them, lol…
02 Tuesday Aug 2022
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my neighbour brought me a few handfuls of beans… mainly green, but a few yellow and one purple…
I made a delicious bowlful for lunch…
so fresh and delicious… a wonderful treat…
02 Saturday Oct 2021
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over the last three or four days I have cooked a lot in the kitchen…
I produced a beautiful corn chowder with some leftover corn on the cob…
then I made zucchini-basil soup with most of my basil and added a bit of chicken to the recipe as well…
and finally I free-styled Calico beans… didn’t have as many canned beans in the house as required nor any molasses, but it came out great anyway, lol… and it was nice to have some of my dahlias around…
there is certainly lots of choice in the fridge just now…
will be putting a few of them into the freezer for lazy days…
25 Wednesday Aug 2021
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big excitement when I discovered 2, yes 2, beans growing, lol…
I had planted a number of seeds but thought that none of them had survived… I’m not sure whether the crazy hot weather affected them…
happily, my neighbour brought me another feed which I had with my supper…
not exactly sure what I will do with two as they still aren’t quite ready, lol…
21 Friday Aug 2020
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beans, big girl pants, delicious, food, healthy, moments, top and tail, treat, widow
been enjoying some beautiful green beans over the last few days, which I was able to order from Diversity Foods…
was happy to top and tail them as well as cut them into thirds…
had enough for two suppers;-)… it is wonderful to have fresh veggies…
yum…
25 Tuesday Aug 2015
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last night I prepared another five pounds of beans… this time, yellow ones…
the great news was that I was sitting on my bed watching tv as I prepped them… my son-in-law came by and replaced the dead one and then carefully explained how this particular one works… let’s hope I remember all the instructions, lol…
can even set the sleep timer from the main remote control… for the previous one I had to use two remotes… I am very happy…
got my big pasta pot and blanched all of the beans for three minutes…
not sure why I didn’t use this pot for the green beans… sped up the process nicely…
cold bath and then into bags…
filled eleven bags and also had a lovely bowl filled for my supper…
they were very tasty and I also had fresh beets… such a delicious time of the year…
19 Wednesday Aug 2015
took a few photos of the violet blooms today… the greenery in these plants is very deep and rich looking…
pleased with how they came out… this was with my iPhone…
had some delicious green beans for my dinner…
I spent the rest of the evening preparing about seven pounds of beans, mainly green, but a few yellow… lots of work involved…
many minutes of “top and tailing”… that’s what my mom called it…
she’d be so proud… I remember when we lived on the farm in La Salle and had a large garden and how she loved working in it…
blanched the beans…
popped them into cold water and filled bags to go into the freezer…
rather proud of myself when I put ten packages into the freezer…
that was besides eating about 3 cups and putting aside a large container for us to take camping on the weekend…
great fun… now to rest, lol…
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