Tag: beans and pulses

Counting on …day 1.160

29th August 2023 

 Seven different times of pea and bean –

Top row: marrow fat peas, split wrinkled peas (these are the peas that didn’t quite make it to the freezing plant in time)

Bottom row: flamingo peas, chick peas, split yellow peas, split fava beans, red carlin peas.

All these are UK grown and come from the retailer Hodmedod. They will provide the basis for a number of meals. For example –

  1. Mushy peas and fried sweet potatoe
  2. Risi bisi*
  3. Ratatouille and wild rice
  4. Hummus and toast
  5. Dhal and rice
  6. Vegetable lasagna
  7. Tagine with millet 

NB I weigh a daily portion of beans into a glass jar, add water and leave to soak. Then I place all the jars in a large pan, half fill with water and bring to the boil. Letting it simmer for 30 minutes before turning of the heat. This gives me 7 jars of ready cooked beans.

*https://greentau.org/2022/06/29/counting-on-day-228/

 Counting on .. day 365

31st October 2022

Can you challenge yourself to a plant-based November? With squashes and pumpkins and mushrooms and brassicas very much in season, lots of delicate and hearty meals await you. Try out a whole range of different plant-based proteins – fava beans, pinto beans, cannelloni beans, Puy lentils, Carlin peas, blue peas, black badger peas, tofu, walnuts, almonds …. I am sure you can have a different one each day!