Re: More harvesting

A friend of mine who does the lower carb thing makes a pretty good dish with very lean ground beef, ricotta and cottage cheese and spices, don't know which ones. I'm sure there's garlic and onions in there. She browns the beef, adds the cheese just til it gets melty and then tops the fresh, green beans with it. She doesn't cook the beans til they're mushy-it's pretty darned good. I was surprised! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> 
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:53 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] More harvesting



I do pretty intensive planting with the beans. The bed is about 4' x
14', there are 4 rows of beans about 6 to 8 inches apart,
so...ummmm...higher math here...probably somewhere around 100 plants.
I do a dish where you saute the fresh green beans, add a little chopped
garlic when they are getting done, and then add some halved cherry
tomatoes just till they are hot and getting a little soft, I add oregano
if I have any growing. I also saute green beans and add basil pesto to
them.
The portobello mushroom and green beans sounds excellent. I will try
that one.
I don't do succession planting because it gets so hot here, once the
summer starts in earnest seeds will not come up, young plants do not
grow and the kinds of things you would succession plant don't set fruit
in that kind of heat even if the plants live. So no late corn, no beans,
of course no lettuce or peas.

Cyndi


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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:19 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] More harvesting

You guys are making me hungry. But I'd have to add some chopped
scallions to that portobella saute.

On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:


with a dash of balsamic vinegar on there...mmm, mmm, mmm.

Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:   Wow, what a lot of beans you must plant!
I don't have a big operation like yours, but in my small patch I keep
beans going all summer. In fact, I have already pulled out and
replanted a couple of rows. I just plant double rows about five or six



feet long - depending on how the space works out with other things.
Then when they slow down and are only giving me a few beans a day, out



they come and a new row goes in. In the spring, I start by planting a
new batch every ten days or so until the first ones start bearing. I
have had beans to eat and/or give away for about three weeks now. We
ate the last of the early ones today, and by tomorrow the next set
will be ready to pick. Incidentally, I have developed a new bean dish
that we are enjoying. You know, after a week or so of beans, you are
looking for something new to do with them.
I place the beans in boiling water for a few minutes - just until they



turn bright green and some of them make a popping sound.
Then I drain the beans and while they are draining, I melt a bit of
butter in the pan and add a diced portobella mushroom. Over low heat,
I let the mushroom begin to give up its juices, then return the beans
to the pan for a few minutes, season with salt and pepper. This is
very simple and quick, and we find it a nice change from plain beans.
I'm sure other mushrooms would do as well, but portobellas are the
quickest and easiest to peel and prepare.
Auralie

In a message dated 07/17/2007 11:11:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,
cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil writes:

I am coming to the end of the green bean season, seems pretty short to



me but the plants are not producing many new flowers. Last Saturday I
started harvesting at 7:30 am and finished my third canner load at
4:30 pm. I did 30 jars of green beans and still had a bag left over,
but to run another canner load was at least an hour and I was out of
enthusiasm for the day. So we're eating a lot of fresh green beans at
dinner now, not a bad thing. I should have harvested tomatoes on
Sunday, I think I could have done a bunch of jars of just cut-up
tomatoes, but after looking at them I decided they could go a while
longer and instead did some other chores.





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