Especially for Stan who just looooves broadbeans, I bring you my broadbean and bacon stir-fry! Ta DA! Featuring home-grown broadbeans, spring-onions, and celery, white onions (grown by Dad), and locally grown tomatoes (my tomatoes aren't quite ready yet). I can't claim to have grown the rice or the bacon, but I'm getting there...
Thanks to the vegetarian society here are a few facts about the broadbean you probably never knew (or cared to know).
- Broad beans are the oldest of all our beans, dating back to stone age times.
- Mystical beliefs were that broad beans, when offered in marriage ensured the birth of a baby son and were important enough to warrant the death sentence for their theft from open fields.
- They are highly nutritious; full of phosphorous, vitamin A and C and rich in protein.
- The beans need to be eaten within a couple of days of picking and stored in the refrigerator, otherwise the carbohydrates in the beans turn to sugar which in turn changes the flavour of the bean (which could, I think. be something to do with their bad reputation).
- I can personally attest that they are very easy to grow and taste great fresh.
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