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Post by Goldbrick on Jul 13, 2022 19:16:34 GMT -5
Green beans, string beans or snaps, call them what you like, but we're waist deep in what we just call BEANS! Yesterday, my wife and I began what I think is the largest single canning run of green beans in all the years we've been married.
We began stringing/snapping beans at 7:pm yesterday, worked until 11:pm, and, with the help of some good coffee, started again at 7 this morning. At 4:15 this afternoon we snapped the last bean, and I headed to the shed for Mason jars, while Sharon set up the pressure canner.
It's just a tad past 8:pm here, and we just shared a meal of leftovers, while the last seven of twenty-eight jars' cools in the canner. We'll most likely dream of beans tonight, but we'll sleep with the knowledge that our time was well spent, and the bean portion of our pantry is well covered.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 13, 2022 19:20:22 GMT -5
Green beans, string beans or snaps, call them what you like, but we're waist deep in what we just call BEANS! Yesterday, my wife and I began what I think is the largest single canning run of green beans in all the years we've been married. We began stringing/snapping beans at 7:pm yesterday, worked until 11:pm, and, with the help of some good coffee, started again at 7 this morning. At 4:15 this afternoon we snapped the last bean, and I headed to the shed for Mason jars, while Sharon set up the pressure canner. It's just a tad past 8:pm here, and we just shared a meal of leftovers, while the last seven of twenty-eight jars' cools in the canner. We'll most likely dream of beans tonight, but we'll sleep with the knowledge that our time was well spent, and the bean portion of our pantry is well covered. 👍 I like beans. |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jul 13, 2022 19:38:29 GMT -5
I've dreamed of beans (and cukes, carrots, &c.) on Nana's canning days. It feels good when you're done, though!
I, too, like beans.
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Post by Goldbrick on Jul 13, 2022 19:46:30 GMT -5
One day I'll learn not to count my chickens{ or beans} before they hatch...we just opened the canner to find one jar broken...so the final count is twenty-seven, and the wife's run of four-letter words is still being counted.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jul 13, 2022 19:48:51 GMT -5
Oops. It sounds like you're still well stocked.
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Post by Silver on Jul 13, 2022 19:57:46 GMT -5
... the musical fruit!
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Post by trailboss on Jul 13, 2022 20:04:18 GMT -5
Massive bean cellar… the title bean stud isn’t taken yet.
Rolled out of Cortez Colorado today, it is obvious from the landscape and businesses rolling through Dove valley, that beans are the local claim to fame.
I think it is Pinto beans and such, the fields/ crops are different than what I am familiar with. A lot of deer on the fields!
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Post by Goldbrick on Jul 13, 2022 20:31:05 GMT -5
Speaking of musical fruit...many of this final picking of beans were overgrown, and when shelled rather than snapped, yielded greenish-white beans, the size and shape of pintos. we ended up with over a quart of these, and I'm looking forward to cooking them this weekend, with some ham, or Bacon  ...Blazing saddles for the weekend I bet  . |
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 13, 2022 20:52:10 GMT -5
Mungo like!
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Post by just ol ed on Jul 13, 2022 22:17:18 GMT -5
no need to finish "musical", it's even older than Ed if that's possible!
Ed
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Post by urbino on Jul 14, 2022 1:33:15 GMT -5
That's quite a harvest. I don't like beans, which made my time breaking/stringing them suckers (and shelling purplehull peas) as a kid all the more onerous.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 14, 2022 9:14:26 GMT -5
Many of my happiest memories are of sitting in the living room with my mom and snapping and shelling peas and beans. I enjoyed watching her watch the Yankees play baseball. She would get so excited and bounce around in her chair. If Mickey hit a home run peas would go everywhere.
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Post by sperrytops on Jul 15, 2022 11:12:32 GMT -5
For us it was fruit. Had large amounts of fruit this year on our trees. Plums, Peaches and Pears. Despite a dry summer, the rains eary in the Spring seem to have kicked things off. Wife is doing some fruit preserves.
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Post by toshtego on Jul 15, 2022 11:55:11 GMT -5
I have at least one serving of beans every day. Often two or three with meals. Flatulence is not a problem since my gut is used to the fiber. Also, I soak, drain and rinse before cooking them in a Pressure Pot. That rids some of the excess sugars which produce gas through fermentation in the gut.
If I eat them infrequently, as I did when living in a city, flatulence becomes a problem for others around me.
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Post by just ol ed on Jul 15, 2022 15:41:12 GMT -5
live alone since 3/15. Beans several times a week, toot whenever till system have enuf
Ed
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Post by trailboss on Jul 15, 2022 21:27:23 GMT -5
Many of my happiest memories are of sitting in the living room with my mom and snapping and shelling peas and beans. I enjoyed watching her watch the Yankees play baseball. She would get so excited and bounce around in her chair. If Mickey hit a home run peas would go everywhere. My grandmother grew the best peas that I have ever tasted. My pipe smoking grandfather would chase us from the garden as we thinned her crops…carrots we did the same. Rhubarb… not sure how we ever handled eating it raw from the garden, but we did.😉 |
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Post by don on Jul 17, 2022 11:34:45 GMT -5
One of these years, I intend to plant one of my 500 sq ft beds all in beans and then pickle them all. I love pickled green beans.
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...Blazing saddles for the weekend I bet 
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