YUM!!! Mine are just beginning to flower - Thanks for such a great video - I love the idea of having them free flow - when i have done it I I have just bagged them while still wet - your way is SO much better! I'm looking forward to giving this a go in the coming months :) Thanks!
Thank you 🙏. Yes it’s a bit more work upfront but they will last (without going to mush) sooo much longer. How lovely that yours are on their way. Hope you get a good harvest
I have a huge crop of these. About 15kg shelled. First year allotmenteer and I think I miscalculated how much I would get 🤣 I was wondering why some people take off the waxy shells? Would I do that after I defreeze them? Or do some people just eat them as is?..anyway thanks for posting..the water is boiling atm I have a busy time ahead
Oh yes, I know that feeling! The waxy coats are not to everyone's taste. I don't mind them when picked young but I remove them from bigger/older beans just before serving. Freeze with them on would be my advice or way too fiddly . Good luck and remember to take a break - it's so hot out there !
Hello from northern Sweden, just a few hours from the Arctic Circle. This was our first year for planting "bondbönor" (farm beans) which are really broad beans or fava beans. It was lucky we did! An early frost took all of our other green beans in one fell swoop. I looked up your post and today was the day to blanch and freeze our crop! Thank you SO much for the clear tutorial. We got every bit of it done and into the freezer for our long, cold winter. Please post the recipe for the chicken/veggie soup. xoxox from all of us on the farm🥰
Hi there Lorayne! What a lovely comment - you really cheered me up and it's lovely to connect across the miles. I hope you are well today. Thank goodness your bondbönor survived and will make it to the freezer. It must be so challenging growing food out there - here's to full freezers and warming soup ! I did do a version of that soup cooked outdoors on the Cobb in another video but you're right I should do that main soup with some of my frozen beans - it's now back on my list! Here's the cobb oven one in case of use: ua-cam.com/video/szEfCCXMA90/v-deo.html
I have just harvested my broad beans here in Australia. Is there any uses for the pods? I have removed the beans out of the larger pods and wonder how I can utilize these
Hi there, wonderful to hear about your harvest ! I've not done it myself but I've heard some people make fritters with the pods when youngish and free from black spot etc. Here's a recipe below - let me know how it goes if you try it and in the meantime, happy harvesting 😊 : www.abelandcole.co.uk/recipes/broad-bean-pod-fritters
Thank you for this straightforward no nonsense video. I’ve just harvested a load and was sat staring at them thinking…. Right I don’t even care for them much ( I mainly grow them for the insects 🐝) how can I store them. I WILL make myself like them over time haha. 👍🙏❤️
😊 I'm the only one who likes them in this house - the 'double peel' helps or maybe try making into a hummus :) Either way, keep feeding those 🌱🐝 🌱🐝 🌱 🐝
I think I'd need an allotment to keep us in broad beans, as we both love them - we got a bag in the weekly veg box and by the time I'd blanched and skinned them, it was just enough for a risotto for two! Then again, my freezer is pretty full of homemade lasagne and shepherds pie atm, thanks in part to your helpful video about lockdown preparation 😀
Thank you for this easy to follow video. It's the end of Spring here and we've had a bumper crop of broad beans. It's been a great activity during lockdown here in Victoria Australia
Hi Lydia! Ahhh yes - a fellow Welshie fan! Good to meet you 😊. Our little Dylan is getting old now, but still makes us laugh every day - such comedians!
@@CookingandCalm thanks for replying! i am in S France (come from UK) - I may just plant some peas! I have got Mange Tout allready! The Aussie guy on Self Sufficient Me had all these exotic things to grow in a hot summer but very difficult to get hold of - like Egyptian onions and Rats Tail Radish which were 19 pounds for a few seeds on Amazon!
YUM!!! Mine are just beginning to flower - Thanks for such a great video - I love the idea of having them free flow - when i have done it I I have just bagged them while still wet - your way is SO much better! I'm looking forward to giving this a go in the coming months :) Thanks!
Thank you 🙏. Yes it’s a bit more work upfront but they will last (without going to mush) sooo much longer. How lovely that yours are on their way. Hope you get a good harvest
I have a huge crop of these. About 15kg shelled. First year allotmenteer and I think I miscalculated how much I would get 🤣 I was wondering why some people take off the waxy shells? Would I do that after I defreeze them? Or do some people just eat them as is?..anyway thanks for posting..the water is boiling atm I have a busy time ahead
Oh yes, I know that feeling! The waxy coats are not to everyone's taste. I don't mind them when picked young but I remove them from bigger/older beans just before serving. Freeze with them on would be my advice or way too fiddly . Good luck and remember to take a break - it's so hot out there !
Hello from northern Sweden, just a few hours from the Arctic Circle. This was our first year for planting "bondbönor" (farm beans) which are really broad beans or fava beans. It was lucky we did! An early frost took all of our other green beans in one fell swoop. I looked up your post and today was the day to blanch and freeze our crop! Thank you SO much for the clear tutorial. We got every bit of it done and into the freezer for our long, cold winter. Please post the recipe for the chicken/veggie soup. xoxox from all of us on the farm🥰
Hi there Lorayne! What a lovely comment - you really cheered me up and it's lovely to connect across the miles. I hope you are well today. Thank goodness your bondbönor survived and will make it to the freezer. It must be so challenging growing food out there - here's to full freezers and warming soup !
I did do a version of that soup cooked outdoors on the Cobb in another video but you're right I should do that main soup with some of my frozen beans - it's now back on my list! Here's the cobb oven one in case of use: ua-cam.com/video/szEfCCXMA90/v-deo.html
Did you put the lid on whilst blanching?
Hi Lisa 👋. I didn't use a lid. Hope that helps 👍
Thanks that’s really useful.
Glad it was helpful. Thank you 😊
Straight forward instructions. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
I have just harvested my broad beans here in Australia. Is there any uses for the pods? I have removed the beans out of the larger pods and wonder how I can utilize these
Hi there, wonderful to hear about your harvest ! I've not done it myself but I've heard some people make fritters with the pods when youngish and free from black spot etc. Here's a recipe below - let me know how it goes if you try it and in the meantime, happy harvesting 😊 : www.abelandcole.co.uk/recipes/broad-bean-pod-fritters
Did you try it, Lisa?
Here's a Mediterranean recipe for the whole pod. The first one I tried this year with the new beans. ua-cam.com/video/ZdMR7AkZs8c/v-deo.html
I put them on the compost heap havn't had time to see recipe bolow!
Thank you for this straightforward no nonsense video. I’ve just harvested a load and was sat staring at them thinking…. Right I don’t even care for them much ( I mainly grow them for the insects 🐝) how can I store them. I WILL make myself like them over time haha. 👍🙏❤️
😊 I'm the only one who likes them in this house - the 'double peel' helps or maybe try making into a hummus :)
Either way, keep feeding those 🌱🐝 🌱🐝 🌱 🐝
I think I'd need an allotment to keep us in broad beans, as we both love them - we got a bag in the weekly veg box and by the time I'd blanched and skinned them, it was just enough for a risotto for two!
Then again, my freezer is pretty full of homemade lasagne and shepherds pie atm, thanks in part to your helpful video about lockdown preparation 😀
Ah thanks Anne! There’s something so comforting about having some nice easy meals in the freezer isn’t there 😊
Thank you for this easy to follow video. It's the end of Spring here and we've had a bumper crop of broad beans. It's been a great activity during lockdown here in Victoria Australia
Oh how lovely. So nice to hear about springtime on this rainy, stormy night here in the UK 😊
Thank you so much for sharing. My beans came out just as you said they would 👍
Oh that's great Tali - oh it's nice to think about gardening again. Raised Beds are frozen solid in the kitchen garden right now 🥶
I'm so chuffed to have stumbled across this video looking to freeze my beans, then I see a Welsh Terrier!! Best Doggos ever! 🤩
Hi Lydia! Ahhh yes - a fellow Welshie fan! Good to meet you 😊. Our little Dylan is getting old now, but still makes us laugh every day - such comedians!
Yes iv'e grown them and now some to freeze amazing how many i got in such a small space what shall i put there now??
If you're in the uk it's a good time to put in squash or climbing beans. Or spring onions maybe. Beetroot, carrots another option. Hope that helps
@@CookingandCalm thanks for replying! i am in S France (come from UK) - I may just plant some peas! I have got Mange Tout allready! The Aussie guy on Self Sufficient Me had all these exotic things to grow in a hot summer but very difficult to get hold of - like Egyptian onions and Rats Tail Radish which were 19 pounds for a few seeds on Amazon!
Lovely, I had so many this year . I love them ❤
The best!