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Yesterday's trip to the Bellevue farmer's market yielded two things that we hadn't had before: apriums and fresh fava beans. Apriums are an apricot-plum hybrid, 3/4 apricot and 1/4 plum. I asked the vendor if he had any to sample (he had that week's cherry variety, and pink lady apples, out), and he kindly cut one up, gave me and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude each a slice, and offered a piece to someone else who was walking past his stall. We liked them enough to buy four, of which we have now eaten two (we also have cherries and strawberries).
The fresh fava beans turned out, when we got them home, to be more work than Cattitude had realized when he bought them. Our conclusion is that they are probably more work than they're worth, and that we'd have preferred lima beans. Cattitude may try cooking them again, but only after having some prepared by someone who knows what they're doing. The instructions he found online (which involves peeling the beans, par-boiling them briefly, and then peeling them again before cooking the rest of the way) seemed to work, but we were unimpressed by the recipe that went with that, which involved lots of onions and garlic.
(The Firefox spelling checker knows neither "aprium" nor "fava"; the latter surprised me.)
cattitude each a slice, and offered a piece to someone else who was walking past his stall. We liked them enough to buy four, of which we have now eaten two (we also have cherries and strawberries).The fresh fava beans turned out, when we got them home, to be more work than Cattitude had realized when he bought them. Our conclusion is that they are probably more work than they're worth, and that we'd have preferred lima beans. Cattitude may try cooking them again, but only after having some prepared by someone who knows what they're doing. The instructions he found online (which involves peeling the beans, par-boiling them briefly, and then peeling them again before cooking the rest of the way) seemed to work, but we were unimpressed by the recipe that went with that, which involved lots of onions and garlic.
(The Firefox spelling checker knows neither "aprium" nor "fava"; the latter surprised me.)
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