i have been feeling very down the last few months, Vivi, your videos really cheer me up. I have been rewatching because all I do is cry. I truly am so grateful to watch you.
Oh Tina, hugs to you lovely......I'm sorry to hear this has been such a down time for you. I hope some sunshine soon will help to pick you up, even just the tiniest bit. Hugs from afar to you lovely. X
You make this and mention it so often. It sounds unbelievably delish. Time for me to write it up and try it for myself. Thank you Vivi. As always, I am just commenting for the algorithms.
Well I'm hoping that you're feeling tonnes better after that - it looks gorgeous (and I love the mopping up idea - would never have thought to add a splash of oil). I actually tried some Gigantes for the first time (I know - I've lived a sheltered life) the other day - absolutely wonderful. I've got some seeds for this year and am looking forward to the harvest already! Thanks another tasty bit of inspiration!
Me, too! I love mopping up with bread but have never thought to add a bit of olive oil, but now that Vivi has enlightened us, it seems so obviously perfect. I envy your access to gigantes seeds. Still looking for seed here. But, Trader Joe's sells tins of what I believe are gigantes in a tomato sauce, so, while it won't be as good as home grown, I think I can still make this. Yum!
So glad you had a go and enjoyed it.......I love it because it's so easy, I can get on with something else while it's bubbling away......and it always tastes great as leftovers........I sometimes crumble a bit of feta on top - naughty but nice! :-)
Looks absolutely divine...this is our type of food...one pot, easy ingredients...I think Paul is going to make this tomorrow with the gigantes. Yum. Thanks for sharing and I hope you've kicked your cold into touch. 😀
Cheers lovely......the cold lingers a little but fresh air and hard work today helped......and now a big bowl of leftovers....perfect! Hope you enjoy it.......I think it is just about the most perfect way of using the Gigantes. :-)
My le creuset is a 7. Got talked into it by the lady who worked at the store for 30 yrs. she said “you can always put less in a big pot! But you can’t put more in a small one”. Sold.
hi Vivi i love the way you speak about your food you have an honest plain passion, you express it beautifully . wow giganties , they look like a butter bean but bigger , what a healthy meal i'm defo going to make it, my sister in law is coming to visit and this sounds just the thing she would like, she is a nurse too, and loves her veggies thank you for sharing and hope you feel better soon.
Hey Vivi, we love this and all your episodes! By ‘we’, I mean I have binge watched all your videos and have introduced your channel to my 66 year old mother. She loves your channel too. We often find ourselves saying ‘Yaay!!!’. I have learned so much and draw so much enthusiasm and positivity from you. You are inspirational!! You can be uber proud! Anyway, I have my name on an allotment waiting list. Fingers crossed this time next year…’Yaay!’ Keep posting amazing videos. Kaz xx
I always think that the best part of cooking anything is the smell of the onions and garlic cooking in butter at the start of most main-meal recipes. MMMMMMM Thanks for the recipe.
As the grey day dawned we've decided today is a better day for your Fassolada than an omelete with sprouting kale tops. My challenge was having to go to the shops to get Thyme... then I realised I have a pot of it I bought for 50p at Wyevale last year as it was almost dead as they had neglected it. It is now happy, healthy and hearty so won't miss a good few sprigs coming off of it!
Hi Vivi, That was cooking, and smell-, and talk-, and taste -"theater " You could smell the scent with your eyes closed. And your enthusiasm was there as an encore. I hope you don't get a cold. That would be really stupid if the sun is coming and you can work in the garden again. When I was young, I went to Brittany in a mini car with three friends. We were completely finished from the long ride and dog-tired. We stayed with acquaintances. And what did we expect? A typical French meal lasting several hours. All I know is that I've had to try again and again not to fall from the chair's fatigue. For in honor of us the whole family had come together. So we had to hold out. Conclusion: cooking something delicious with ingredients from your own garden, spiced with the most beautiful memories is the very best. All kind greetings and a heartfelt hug sends you Claudia from Germany.
I am going through your kitchen playlist today looking for ideas for the stored produce from this summer. Cabbage Pie and Fassolada are on the weekend's menu for sure! As always, thank you for being such a delight and sharing your experiences with us!
Vivi that looks so delish! That's the kind of food I love to have simmering on the back burner on a cold day whilst curling up on the couch with an old movie. Mmmmmm mmmmm good! ✌🏼️&❤️and Good Food!!🍵
Looks yumm Viv thanku for sharing .It reminds me of the soup my Husband makes with beans Turkish/Greek . When i cook Greek meals i put old Greek music on and it transports u there :) I love Greece .Hope u have a wonderful weekend and take care ,Deb x
have to give it a try...I was coming home from work and stopped at a local store on the border of Virginia and NC and there in a truck near my parking spot was your look-a-like. I nearly gasped, staring. ha ha hope you are having a blessed Friday
I’m a big fan of the Greek islands too, but I always manage to go in September/October time when everything’s very dry and dusty. I’d love to go in April/May/June when there’s greenery and flowers. I sowed my coco de Paimpol yesterday. A little early, but I got overexcited as usual. Enjoy your stew - it looks delicious!
I finally found this Vivo. I made it for the first time. I often make ministrone but I certainly prefer this. I think I put too many beans in though. I did use a chicken stock and strips of chard and spinach.
Do you renember My Big Fat Greek Wedding when Toula introduces her vegetarian boyfriend at the family party. Everyone goes dead silent and then aunty says, " vegetarian? That's okay, I'll cook a lamb". Then everyone calms down...lol
Looks delicious. I shared this to my facebook so I can easily look it up for the recipe. It is still really cold here in Vermont and this looks like a wonderful warm meal for a cold day.
The past winter was so severe I was afraid my thyme was done in so I ordered two packets of two types. My seed trays have 18 spaces so i planted 36 starts of 2-3 seeds each. Germination was great so I thinned to two plants per pot. Last week I planted them out to one of my perennial beds along the grape arbors. It has been dry here and the base soil is sand so I was watering seedlings today and marveling at how lush the thyme already was. I love it for cooking but especially in herbal teas where I use gobs of herbs; no fiddly few sprigs; to get heavy aromatic flavorful teas. I will wait another week or so and then begin the first harvesting. This year I have gone overboard on various herbs because you get so many seeds per packet and have rebelled at the prices the greenhouses charge for a single plant.
Gosh I hope my germination rate will be that good......and that they will be happy in my soil. I, too, love my herbal teas.......I'm hoping to grow lots of chamomile and peppermint - my favourites for tea. :-)
Hope you scarfed all that down and kicked out the bad cold germ! While I was watching that beautiful veg stew, it is raining so hard at 5:30 a.m. I have my phone volume all the way up just to hear you, ugh! We are going to have another week of this. That looks lovely as always, I'm surprised you don't have people knocking at your door when you're cooking! The smell must be wonderful!😆 feel better!
Ugh......when will this weather get better???? We're finally starting to get a bit of sunshine.....I hope yours comes soon! In the meantime make yourself some yummy, warming, comforting Fassolada. :-)
Vivi, my kitchen day has been chili soup day. I made a big batch because this weekend is supposed to horrid weather. Cold and snow again. We have already got enough snow to cover the ground. That is not very helpful to warm up the garden soil. My little seedlings will have to stay in the bunker for another week. Yesterday, I just took more seedlings from the nursery (my warm computer room where seeds begin life) to the bunker where the seedlings grow strong under the grow lights. The clutches of Winter just don't seem to want to give up to Spring this year. It's a good thing I have inside projects to work on. Have a great Greek Bean Stew day. Nebraska Dave
Here too in NY. Next week the pm temps should finally break above freezing and start warming up from there. I just hope it goes slow cause I hate it getting hot too fast and no spring.
Omg, didn't realise the gigantes were a type of butter bean, I love butter beans lol, Wow that soup looked amazing, # starving lol. Am getting seed as we speak ;-) x
More of your travel stories! I have some like that of traveling in the south of France with a friend who was an actress riding a barge and doing performances in small towns along the rivers that the barge docked in. It was my version of meeting the locals and enjoying single young woman travel. So epic and the best memories of kind locals in Tarrascon near Arles and sweet lady in a shop complementing me on my French skills. I have since lost most of it but retained a little. And also wanted to say that I just harvested some thyme and saved the leaves after drying. My hands smelled amazing after that job. This recipe looks like a Vivi goes to Greece special. I’m wondering if your friend’s Mama used oregano also. The gigantes are still so impressive.
Hi Vivi~Sorry about your cold. We're being treated to an additional foot of snow.....My daughter is taking a "Master Gardener's" course, so this additional snow is really frustrating her. She's "itching" to get out there and get her hands dirty. ^ * ^ ( happy birdie)
Well, that looks simply delicious. I'll have to make it as soon as I'm done with my black bean soup. Gigantes are hard to find in the U.S., so I had to order a pound of beans online last spring..$12...expensive! Six times the price of other dry beans. But I figured I'd only have to buy them once. Now I have my own home-grown Gigantes. Love them!
Thanks! But I hate lima beans. And the Gigantes are free from now on, since I grew a bunch of them last summer and am saving the biggest beans to plant in a few weeks. So my $12 investment should last a long time. :)
Michele the comment wasn't really directed at you since you obviously have already made your choice, but for others reading the comments in the u.s. & who can't spend that much & don't want to wait... Limas or butter beans work well as a sub
Sorry if I missed it in a previous vid.... how do you preserve/keep your beans? I'd love to know more about how you manage to store your produce. Thanks Vivi😀👍(and I'm going to make this dish today except with canned beans)
Some of them I freeze 'green' (see video in 'storing produce' playlist) and some I store dried (the majority).....simply leave them to dry on the plants until the pod feels papery and the beans rattle inside.....then pod them and spread out in a single layer on trays for last bit of drying....then store in airtight jars. :-)
Looks delicious. Gigantes is on the list for 2019. I guess the reason why there are so much advice against colds is that nothing really work besides pity and comfort food :-) If the immune-system in general is a bit slow a lot of proteins might be the answer. I would go for eggs, sausages and beans for a couple of meals. I find it hard to get enough proteins in my diet because I do not eat dairy-products and I do not eat a lot of meat on a daily basis. What would a true vegetarian do, maybe some cheese to go with the beans and lentils?
I really like mine........it's so easy to care for.......every few years I sand it down a bit and that removes any little water stains or scorch marks etc and then reseal with some oil. Super easy. :-)
What makes this "Greek"? This is not much different from my mom's soup. Just not the bundle of thyme.(i guess she always had the thyme-out. lol) For your cold...remember your beta carotene soup. As always, I love learning how to use my garden stuff. (Although my dried beans look so pretty in their jars it is hard to use them.) Thank you. :)
I hear you about the beans looking so pretty in their jars.......I could gaze at mine for hours! ;-) .......and putting your hand into a jar of dried beans....bliss!
Ooooh, no...it has to be thyme....the smell of Greek hills!!! But......I guess you could play around with all sorts.....spices would make it extra warming for winter. Have fun experimenting!
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i have been feeling very down the last few months, Vivi, your videos really cheer me up. I have been rewatching because all I do is cry. I truly am so grateful to watch you.
Oh Tina, hugs to you lovely......I'm sorry to hear this has been such a down time for you. I hope some sunshine soon will help to pick you up, even just the tiniest bit. Hugs from afar to you lovely. X
You make this and mention it so often. It sounds unbelievably delish. Time for me to write it up and try it for myself. Thank you Vivi. As always, I am just commenting for the algorithms.
Thank you so much lovely - I really appreciate it. 😊
The stew looks delicious, I'm inspired to make a pot up this weekend. Thanks so much for sharing on here.
Cheers! Yay - have a go, it's so easy but so tasty. :-)
Well I'm hoping that you're feeling tonnes better after that - it looks gorgeous (and I love the mopping up idea - would never have thought to add a splash of oil). I actually tried some Gigantes for the first time (I know - I've lived a sheltered life) the other day - absolutely wonderful. I've got some seeds for this year and am looking forward to the harvest already! Thanks another tasty bit of inspiration!
Mopping up is the best bit! Especially if the bread is really good stuff. Hope yours grow well this year and you get a great harvest. :-)
Me, too! I love mopping up with bread but have never thought to add a bit of olive oil, but now that Vivi has enlightened us, it seems so obviously perfect. I envy your access to gigantes seeds. Still looking for seed here. But, Trader Joe's sells tins of what I believe are gigantes in a tomato sauce, so, while it won't be as good as home grown, I think I can still make this. Yum!
Yum! We made it and have more for tomorrow! May have some garlic bread with it tomorrow... will think on that. Thank you for a new repertoire recipe.
So glad you had a go and enjoyed it.......I love it because it's so easy, I can get on with something else while it's bubbling away......and it always tastes great as leftovers........I sometimes crumble a bit of feta on top - naughty but nice! :-)
Looks absolutely divine...this is our type of food...one pot, easy ingredients...I think Paul is going to make this tomorrow with the gigantes. Yum. Thanks for sharing and I hope you've kicked your cold into touch. 😀
Cheers lovely......the cold lingers a little but fresh air and hard work today helped......and now a big bowl of leftovers....perfect! Hope you enjoy it.......I think it is just about the most perfect way of using the Gigantes. :-)
Will let you know how it goes!!!
I'm sure with you two in the kitchen it'll be gorg. :-)
It was fish fingers, chips and peas tonight....🤣🤣🤣
My le creuset is a 7. Got talked into it by the lady who worked at the store for 30 yrs. she said “you can always put less in a big pot! But you can’t put more in a small one”. Sold.
Hahaha - so true! :-)
hi Vivi i love the way you speak about your food you have an honest plain passion, you express it beautifully . wow giganties , they look like a butter bean but bigger , what a healthy meal i'm defo going to make it, my sister in law is coming to visit and this sounds just the thing she would like, she is a nurse too, and loves her veggies thank you for sharing and hope you feel better soon.
Ooh, yes, give it a go for your sis in law visit.......enjoy! :-)
Night shift.... but the whole afternoon in a sunny garden! Celebrated by planting a small apple tree!
I hope your shift went well.........how lovely to sneak in a bit of sunshine before and get your new tree planted. :-)
Awesome update thank you for sharing Vivi and blessing s
Thank you. :-)
Hey Vivi, we love this and all your episodes! By ‘we’, I mean I have binge watched all your videos and have introduced your channel to my 66 year old mother. She loves your channel too. We often find ourselves saying ‘Yaay!!!’. I have learned so much and draw so much enthusiasm and positivity from you. You are inspirational!! You can be uber proud! Anyway, I have my name on an allotment waiting list. Fingers crossed this time next year…’Yaay!’ Keep posting amazing videos. Kaz xx
Awww......thank you both for watching......and fingers tightly crossed you get an allotment sooooooooooon! :-)
What a lovely story it just sound so lovely how you travels around and slept on the beaches :) and lovely recipe too
So many great memories........ :-)
Yum- it looks and the recipe sounds wonderful
Thank you lovely.....it's one of my absolute favourites, so simple, so tasty.....so comforting and filling! 😊
I always think that the best part of cooking anything is the smell of the onions and garlic cooking in butter at the start of most main-meal recipes. MMMMMMM Thanks for the recipe.
Ooooh, yes....yum! :-)
As the grey day dawned we've decided today is a better day for your Fassolada than an omelete with sprouting kale tops. My challenge was having to go to the shops to get Thyme... then I realised I have a pot of it I bought for 50p at Wyevale last year as it was almost dead as they had neglected it. It is now happy, healthy and hearty so won't miss a good few sprigs coming off of it!
Ooooh, well done nursing it back to the point where it's feeding you.......50p....sweet! ;-)
Hi Vivi,
That was cooking, and smell-, and talk-, and taste -"theater "
You could smell the scent with your eyes closed. And your enthusiasm was there as an encore.
I hope you don't get a cold. That would be really stupid if the sun is coming and you can work in the garden again.
When I was young, I went to Brittany in a mini car with three friends. We were completely finished from the long ride and dog-tired.
We stayed with acquaintances.
And what did we expect? A typical French meal lasting several hours.
All I know is that I've had to try again and again not to fall from the chair's fatigue. For in honor of us the whole family had come together. So we had to hold out.
Conclusion: cooking something delicious with ingredients from your own garden, spiced with the most beautiful memories is the very best.
All kind greetings and a heartfelt hug sends you Claudia from Germany.
I love how cooking provokes these sorts of memories for us........good food, good friends, good conversation - life at it's simple best. :-)
Thank you vivi. I can't wait to use my gigantees butterbeans once thery are ready. You made that sound so delicious. Xxx
Ooooh, it really is. Wishing you a fantastic harvest from your Gigantes. :-)
I am going through your kitchen playlist today looking for ideas for the stored produce from this summer. Cabbage Pie and Fassolada are on the weekend's menu for sure! As always, thank you for being such a delight and sharing your experiences with us!
Awwww.....thank you Sarah! Hmmmm, fassolada......good idea! Cheers lovely. :-)
tried this! Super delish!
Yay, so glad you tried it and enjoyed it......so simple but so yummy! 😊
Just made this for the first time - delicious!!!! 😋 Using up last years beans!!
Yay!!! 😀
Ohmygoodness! I’m salivating!
Definitely going to make this, thank you 💞
Ooooh, yes, do give it a go......it's so simple but soooooo tasty. It's an absolute favourite of mine over the winter.
Vivi that looks so delish! That's the kind of food I love to have simmering on the back burner on a cold day whilst curling up on the couch with an old movie. Mmmmmm mmmmm good! ✌🏼️&❤️and Good Food!!🍵
It was the perfect thing for a day of feeling a bit grotty. :-)
Looks yumm Viv thanku for sharing .It reminds me of the soup my Husband makes with beans Turkish/Greek . When i cook Greek meals i put old Greek music on and it transports u there :) I love Greece .Hope u have a wonderful weekend and take care ,Deb x
I hear you! I may have hummed a few Greek tunes as I stirred the pot. ;-) Have a lovely weekend yourselves.
Good day to you Vivi !! 👍👍😁😁 Thanks for sharing your fantastic recipe for Fasolada (Greek Bean Stew) with us all today 😁😁👍👍
You're welcome - hope you enjoy having a go. :-)
have to give it a try...I was coming home from work and stopped at a local store on the border of Virginia and NC and there in a truck near my parking spot was your look-a-like. I nearly gasped, staring. ha ha hope you are having a blessed Friday
Hahaha - I hope she didn't notice you staring! ;-)
I nearly stopped to explain but scooted on by as she had someone else in the truck and turned toward them
I’m a big fan of the Greek islands too, but I always manage to go in September/October time when everything’s very dry and dusty. I’d love to go in April/May/June when there’s greenery and flowers. I sowed my coco de Paimpol yesterday. A little early, but I got overexcited as usual. Enjoy your stew - it looks delicious!
Definitely worth a visit in the spring! :-) I hope you get a lovely harvest from your Cocos. :-)
I finally found this Vivo. I made it for the first time. I often make ministrone but I certainly prefer this. I think I put too many beans in though. I did use a chicken stock and strips of chard and spinach.
Do you renember My Big Fat Greek Wedding when Toula introduces her vegetarian boyfriend at the family party. Everyone goes dead silent and then aunty says, " vegetarian? That's okay, I'll cook a lamb". Then everyone calms down...lol
thanks Vivi now im drooling, great video :)
Hahaha. Cheers.:-)
I love your cooking videos Vivi.
I’m going to fling this is the slow cooker tonight. Yummy! 💋
Oooooh, enjoy! T'will be a good feast post garden session. :-)
Looks delicious. I shared this to my facebook so I can easily look it up for the recipe. It is still really cold here in Vermont and this looks like a wonderful warm meal for a cold day.
It's perfect to come home to after a chilly, damp session in the garden. Enjoy. :-)
Hi viv looks great and I got some of the gigantic beans that I hope to get out sometime this year
Hope you get a great harvest! :-)
I enjoyed the vlog.
Thank you Anna. 😊
The past winter was so severe I was afraid my thyme was done in so I ordered two packets of two types. My seed trays have 18 spaces so i planted 36 starts of 2-3 seeds each. Germination was great so I thinned to two plants per pot. Last week I planted them out to one of my perennial beds along the grape arbors. It has been dry here and the base soil is sand so I was watering seedlings today and marveling at how lush the thyme already was. I love it for cooking but especially in herbal teas where I use gobs of herbs; no fiddly few sprigs; to get heavy aromatic flavorful teas. I will wait another week or so and then begin the first harvesting. This year I have gone overboard on various herbs because you get so many seeds per packet and have rebelled at the prices the greenhouses charge for a single plant.
Gosh I hope my germination rate will be that good......and that they will be happy in my soil. I, too, love my herbal teas.......I'm hoping to grow lots of chamomile and peppermint - my favourites for tea. :-)
Hope you scarfed all that down and kicked out the bad cold germ! While I was watching that beautiful veg stew, it is raining so hard at 5:30 a.m. I have my phone volume all the way up just to hear you, ugh! We are going to have another week of this. That looks lovely as always, I'm surprised you don't have people knocking at your door when you're cooking! The smell must be wonderful!😆 feel better!
Ugh......when will this weather get better???? We're finally starting to get a bit of sunshine.....I hope yours comes soon! In the meantime make yourself some yummy, warming, comforting Fassolada. :-)
thanks Vivvi xxx
Thank you. :-)
Been on my mind for a while to make this... tomorrow is the day. Exciting!
Yay! Enjoy. 😀
Vivi, my kitchen day has been chili soup day. I made a big batch because this weekend is supposed to horrid weather. Cold and snow again. We have already got enough snow to cover the ground. That is not very helpful to warm up the garden soil. My little seedlings will have to stay in the bunker for another week. Yesterday, I just took more seedlings from the nursery (my warm computer room where seeds begin life) to the bunker where the seedlings grow strong under the grow lights. The clutches of Winter just don't seem to want to give up to Spring this year. It's a good thing I have inside projects to work on.
Have a great Greek Bean Stew day.
Nebraska Dave
Crikey.........I do hope Spring arrives for you soon......your bunker is going to turn into a jungle at this rate! ;-)
Here too in NY. Next week the pm temps should finally break above freezing and start warming up from there. I just hope it goes slow cause I hate it getting hot too fast and no spring.
Omg, didn't realise the gigantes were a type of butter bean, I love butter beans lol, Wow that soup looked amazing, # starving lol. Am getting seed as we speak ;-) x
Have fun growing them.......and then enjoy the scoff! :-)
I forgot the potatoes but did make cheese and chive scones from chives in the garden. They work really well with this and mimted pea soup.
I'm eating spicey tofu and veg stir fry or I'd be very jealous at the moment!😁 Thanks for another receipt, you're inspiring me!😍
Mmmmmmmmmm, spicy tofu......I haven't had any for ages! Enjoy. :-)
More of your travel stories! I have some like that of traveling in the south of France with a friend who was an actress riding a barge and doing performances in small towns along the rivers that the barge docked in. It was my version of meeting the locals and enjoying single young woman travel. So epic and the best memories of kind locals in Tarrascon near Arles and sweet lady in a shop complementing me on my French skills. I have since lost most of it but retained a little. And also wanted to say that I just harvested some thyme and saved the leaves after drying. My hands smelled amazing after that job.
This recipe looks like a Vivi goes to Greece special. I’m wondering if your friend’s Mama used oregano also. The gigantes are still so impressive.
What lovely memories. :-) I think I need to hop on the Eurostar again soon...... ;-)
This sounds delicious!
It is! Comfort in a bowl. :-)
Yassou! See what you made me do Vivi? I ordered some gigate bean seeds to try and grow.....Your soup looks yummy!
Oooh,happy growing - I hope you get a fabulous harvest from them. :-)
Hi Vivi~Sorry about your cold. We're being treated to an additional foot of snow.....My daughter is taking a "Master Gardener's" course, so this additional snow is really frustrating her. She's "itching" to get out there and get her hands dirty. ^ * ^ ( happy birdie)
Yikes......I bet she's getting cabin fever! ;-)
Well, that looks simply delicious. I'll have to make it as soon as I'm done with my black bean soup. Gigantes are hard to find in the U.S., so I had to order a pound of beans online last spring..$12...expensive! Six times the price of other dry beans. But I figured I'd only have to buy them once. Now I have my own home-grown Gigantes. Love them!
Michele Paccione lima or butter beans would work well & are cheaper
Thanks! But I hate lima beans. And the Gigantes are free from now on, since I grew a bunch of them last summer and am saving the biggest beans to plant in a few weeks. So my $12 investment should last a long time. :)
Michele the comment wasn't really directed at you since you obviously have already made your choice, but for others reading the comments in the u.s. & who can't spend that much & don't want to wait... Limas or butter beans work well as a sub
Ach, Michelle, I wish I'd known.......I would have sent you some of mine. At least you have your future supply now. Happy growing. :-)
Mmmm, my mouth is watering..... shall I bring a plate? :-)
Of course......pull up a chair. ;-)
Sorry if I missed it in a previous vid.... how do you preserve/keep your beans? I'd love to know more about how you manage to store your produce. Thanks Vivi😀👍(and I'm going to make this dish today except with canned beans)
Some of them I freeze 'green' (see video in 'storing produce' playlist) and some I store dried (the majority).....simply leave them to dry on the plants until the pod feels papery and the beans rattle inside.....then pod them and spread out in a single layer on trays for last bit of drying....then store in airtight jars. :-)
Fabulous, thank you so much. I'll definitely do this next time 😁 (our season is finishing 😌now )
Thanks for sharing the memory ☺ we are having something similar, but with chorizo (🤐) x
Enjoy! :-)
Looks good
Get better soon 🌹
Cheers. :-)
Looks delicious. Gigantes is on the list for 2019.
I guess the reason why there are so much advice against colds is that nothing really work besides pity and comfort food :-)
If the immune-system in general is a bit slow a lot of proteins might be the answer. I would go for eggs, sausages and beans for a couple of meals. I find it hard to get enough proteins in my diet because I do not eat dairy-products and I do not eat a lot of meat on a daily basis.
What would a true vegetarian do, maybe some cheese to go with the beans and lentils?
I get plenty of protein.....I just have a bit of a compromised immune system.....colds are frequent but short, thank goodness. :-)
Off topic but.... I'm thinking about a wood replacement countertop & yours looks so lovely I was wondering what ur thoughts are about upkeep?
I really like mine........it's so easy to care for.......every few years I sand it down a bit and that removes any little water stains or scorch marks etc and then reseal with some oil. Super easy. :-)
Hello how you feel well soon. I know you don’t want to get sick because you want to be in the garden planting stuff in. Get well soon happy gardening
It won't/hasn't stopped me from gardening......just made me even slower than normal. ;-)
What makes this "Greek"? This is not much different from my mom's soup. Just not the bundle of thyme.(i guess she always had the thyme-out. lol) For your cold...remember your beta carotene soup. As always, I love learning how to use my garden stuff. (Although my dried beans look so pretty in their jars it is hard to use them.) Thank you. :)
I hear you about the beans looking so pretty in their jars.......I could gaze at mine for hours! ;-) .......and putting your hand into a jar of dried beans....bliss!
Do you soak them before you cook them,and of so, for how long? Thanks
From dried I soak them overnight in cold water then boil them for about 2 hours. I froze some too and they steam in about 15 - 20 minutes. :-)
Really surprised that the thyme was the only spice/seasoning in this dish! Do you every vary it with other spices?
Ooooh, no...it has to be thyme....the smell of Greek hills!!! But......I guess you could play around with all sorts.....spices would make it extra warming for winter. Have fun experimenting!
its pity we live so far apart i could pop over for tea ha ha
Hahaha - shall I start a delivery service? ;-)
deffo
Yes, please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a nice dish.i imagine that would be good when watching weight .I need some low calorie recipes🐦
It really is so yummy and satisfying...yes, I think it work well in a calorie controlled diet as it is low in cals but still very filling. 😊
what a sweet lady you are...
Aww, thank you lovely.
Vit. C, Echinacea, and zinc to prevent colds.
6:04- That's a potato!
Hahaha - they are rather large. :-)
To swim in a Greek island sea again....jumping off a boat to swim to a cove.
Ooooooh, yes!!!!! :-)