HEY, mama, I would come and help you shell those beans, but you know, I really have another project going at the moment (yawn).
Well, mama has been out there in the garden ripping up the broad beans (feves) to freeze nice little packages for the future. When she said to papa that they would then have them in the winter, papa said, “But it is STILL winter around here!” Okay, okay, let’s not split bean pods! But it is nice to pull out a lovely package of fava beans (the Italian word) and steam them with olive oil, fresh sage and garlic. And they have huge amounts of protein, mama says.
Maybe I’ll go help her later when she cuts a few “Charlotte” roses for our dinner table…Plus that’s my favourite, uh, you know, SPOT, in the gardenwe’ll kill two birds with one pee, er, stone. Whatever that means. Or maybe two pis with one pee, haha. The pi is that naughty bird we are blaming for bringing the weird creature into the house—we think he came in the kitchen and dropped on the counter. YUK. And we THINK it’s an embryonic RAT.
I don’t even want to go there, okay? Let’s smell the roses instead.
Good, now I can relax!
Relax? What in the world came into your house LouLou? We’re not sure we could ever relax again ifin a rat was in the house. MOL Big hugs
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
Our neighbor thinks it is a…sorry…embryo from an animal that the BAD magpie brought in from where he robbed a nest of something…maybe a rat, he said. The good news is, it’s GONE!
You’re a hard working cat, Loulou. You need a raise.
Raise? Raise? What’s that?
Regular peas (sweet peas were flowers where I come from.) But maybe Lady Peas go by another name in The Colonies ?
Tiny, slightly oval, sort of like a black-eyed pea but all white and very tender.
Actually I googled them – they are new to me, but obviously an American dish. Interesting.
Mama shelled them and ate them in Arkansas at her aunt’s house. So tender and very buttery.
Such beautiful roses – and mama was in such a state just thinking about the expo and having brought ONE real sweater thinking it’s supposed to be spring – she forgot the fabulous rose your mama cut for us to take home. She’s now wondering how many days one can wear the same jeans and sweater in a row……………But it LOOKS like summer, non? You have the beautiful garden and we have a lovely little terrace – but we keep saying – maybe tomorrow the wind will stop. Ya think?
Your mama can borrow any sweater of mine anytime. I mean of mama’s tops! She has duplicate blacks that your mama would like. This morning 7 degrees and now nineteen!
I spent many a summer shellin’ beans – green beans, wax beans, kidney beans, the much maligned Lima bean. Hurrah for the humble bean !
Yech on your identification !
Mama adores lima beans, all beans. Mama shelled in summer, too. How about Lady Peas?