by Doctor Science
I haven’t posted in a while because it’s harvest season for my vegetable loves. Today was Green Bean Day:
The “family share” at our CSA was 4 quarts of PYO beans, which translates to “as many as you can stand to pick”. I ended up with about 6 pounds’ worth, which I was able to pick in about 20-30 minutes.
When I started picking, I was careful to only pick the best beans, the ones that haven’t matured so much that they’re a little woody. After a bit I said to heck with that, and just — picked.
At home, we sorted them into “perfect” and “mature”, and I prepped only the perfect ones for freezing — they’re in the bags in this picture. The mature ones, the heap on the right, have been blanched for about 3 minutes, but I’m not going to freeze them, we (and the people we split our share with) will just eat them over the next few days.