Peas & Beans

27
Mar, 2018 By Sally Osgerby

Green Bean and Tomato Stew Recipe

This recipe for green bean and tomato stew is a novel way of using up a glut of runner beans & tomatoes at the end of the season. Ingredients: 2lb runner beans 1lb ripe tomatoes 3 onions 1/2 pint olive
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27
Mar, 2018 By Sally Osgerby

Green Pea Hummus Dip

This recipe for green pea hummus dip serves 6 and comes from the Yes Peas! Recipe Book. Ingredients: 500g frozen peas 3 cloves garlic, crushed 3 tbsp light tahini paste Juice of 1 large lemon (add more if preferred) 1
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11
Dec, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Pickled Runner Bean Recipe

This recipe for pickled runner beans is a good way to use up surplus runner beans. Ingredients: * 1.5lb runner beans * 1pint malt vinegar * 1.5lb granulated sugar * 1 level teaspoon ground allspice * pepper Method 1. String & slice
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27
Jul, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

How to Freeze Broad Beans

There are two schools of thought on how to freeze broad beans – some people blanch the beans before freezing and some don’t. Blanching involves plunging the beans into boiling water to stop all enzyme activity in the beans, so the
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26
Jul, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Blackfly on Runner Beans

We do not usually suffer from blackfly on runner beans. Our vegetable garden is in the north of the UK where we normally have cool, damp summers. Blackfly, like all aphids usually thrive in hot, dry conditions! Blackfly are attacking the
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06
Jul, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

How to Make Vegetable Crisps – Recipe

Vegetables make healthy snacks – vegetable crisps are delicious. Most root vegetables make tasty crisps: potatoes parsnips carrots sweet potato beetroot   Recipe for vegetable crisps: slice veg thinly with a potato peeler if using potatoes – wash the slices
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02
Jul, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Blackfly on Broad Beans

Blackfly    –  Latin name: Aphis fabae (in the family of Aphididae) Blackfly is a serious pest of broadbeans in the kitchen garden. A whole mass of shiny black insects cover the growing tips, flower buds and the underside of young
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01
Jul, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Pinch Broad Bean Tops to Control Blackfly

Gardeners often pinch out the tops of broad beans to curb black fly. We very rarely pinch out the tops.  But if blackfly are a problem, the tips may be pinched out when the first pods are set. To pinch
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30
Jun, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Broad Bean Top Omelette

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has produced a wonderful omelette recipe using broad bean tops. Ingredients: * handful leafy broad bean tops * 4 eggs * 50gm of butter * salt & pepper to taste Click here to see Hugh’s article in The
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30
Jun, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Bean and Pea Seed Fly

Bean and Pea seed fly (Latin name – Delia platura, Delia florilega) Adult fly is very small (3 to 6 mm long) & grey in colour Eggs are pearly white, elongated & 1 mm long, laid on the soil surface
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