Hi, friends!
I hope your day is going well.
I went out side today to check the garden. Turns out despite both my parents saying they would check on things and pick tomatoes and green beans that were ripe, they ah didn’t touch anything the four days I was out of town. And then of course I wasn’t feeling good enough Sunday or yesterday to do anything.
Plus we had some good rains while I was gone. Sadly, I threw away over 2 dozen tomatoes that had split and started rotting. I was very confused about all the gnats on my tomato plants, until I realized it was because of tomatoes that needed to be picked like Thursday or Friday. So that was depressing.
Then I picked about 3 lbs of green beans and yellow romano beans. This my friends… is too much for me. Even if I weren’t still at the “eww food does not sound good” phase of being sick, it’s too much. I guess I’ll blanch and freeze the beans because I don’t know what else to do with them.
The romano beans are the kind of thing I would normally stew with some spicy sausage and bell peppers and onion, but I don’t have any sausage and I’m still under quarantine. I’m trying to figure out what to do instead and I’m stumped because the meat I have in the freezer is bland, lowfat stuff like a pork tenderloin or some chicken breasts. I might just add lentils or something towards the end and serve over rice.
I didn’t know Romano beans before, but this looks good:
https://www.notquitenigella.com/2020/05/22/roman-romano-beans-recipe/
I bet it freezes well.
They are nice because they can hold up to longer cook times. Like throw them in a crock pot with some canned tomatoes and whatever else and let stew for several hours and they’re soft but still hold up when you hit with a fork.
This looks pretty close to what I was thinking of cooking, actually. Thanks!
You could try making pickled beans. Just like dill pickles but with beans instead of cucumbers. Those will keep for a long time.
I’m not a fan of dilly beans, so while I thought about this, it wasn’t my main idea.
I snagged a 70s Peugeot mixte back in July that had a bent rear rim. I have parts lying around, figured it’d be an easy fix ‘n flip. Just about everything is going wrong, and I’m getting near ‘fuckit’ stage.
The few times I’ve tried to do the most simple stuff like centering brakes or calibrating derailleurs I’ve gotten to that point awfully quick.
No. Such. Thing.
I had a hell drive today, our main freeway was closed much of the day or down to 1 or 2 lanes due to an accident before rush hour. A 30 min drive took me almost 2 hours. Coming home, the truck is still sitting in a lane and traffic is still fucked going south. I get that a fatality needs to be investigated but you arrested the culprit, know he was impaired, fucking clear it out and lets get on with life!
That is annoying as fuck! Tow it already!!!
Close to a decade ago, my mom and I were driving to New Orleans for a cruise and just south of Memphis (had good line of sight up a very gradual hill) we were approaching this very fresh accident. What boggled my mind was that several random people just pulled over to redirect traffic away from the 2 cars involved — like there were people standing in lanes on I-55 waving people to a different lane as well as literally pushing those 2 cars into the shoulder.
Like I don’t know what the fuck the cops were gonna do when they eventually got there because all the work was done except medical care and towing.
But also, no traffic impact whatsoever thanks to those helpful folks.
When we had a blackout about 20 years ago (the fun, Carnival-like blackout, not the murderous looting rampage of 1977) lots of people chipped in to act as traffic wardens because the stoplights obviously stopped working. It was also a very warm night and now no one had a/c or fans, so everyone was out on the streets until all hours. Bars and restaurants were giving stuff away because the ice was melting and the food was going to spoil. Every sidewalk turned into a flashlight parade after dark. It was really something.
If it happened now, I’m afraid, it would be more like 1977 than 2003, but maybe I read too much sensationalist tabloid “news.”
I remember that blackout. Post blackout at work they didn’t have enough power to run all the servers so only mission critical functions were run because the buildings transformers blew up which was going to take two weeks to fix. My group wasn’t considered mission critical so I had two paid weeks off.
My aunts were visiting from Korea and we had to take them to the airport at 9pm that evening. Turned out Pearson was okay and flights were going although an hour late. I spent the night sitting in the dark with a baseball bat, just incase someone decided to riot (which didn’t happen, fortunately.)
My parent’s house power came back on 4 hours later. We were one of the few areas that had power and two weeks off so I ended up on a gaming marathon like I did in university and haven’t since.
That blackout also helped destroy the grip of the provincial Tories (the so called Common Sense/Cents Revolution) and led to 15 slightly feckless years of Librul rule. It turned out that cutting Hydro’s budget (and trying to sell it) meant that the surge protection systems weren’t maintained and caused the Ontario grid to collapse for the first time since 1977.
You could make a bean and barley soup…though I usually use a smoked turkey leg, ham, or thick cut bacon to add depth of flavor. It freezes well and is great for sore throats.
any chance you could get someone to deliver you some spicy sausages?
coz that sounds like a pretty nice stew
anyways here….have this thing thats stuck in my head and will be sung at work where its probably not apropriate
Yep, quarantine is the best reason to get goods delivered. Get apps for grocery stores, order the minimum amount (ours is $35 — that’s like, what, 3.5 bananas?), and have it delivered to your door.