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Cooking & Baking

no_hypocrisy

(46,122 posts) Tue Jun 30, 2015, 04:21 PM Jun 2015

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Fresh fava beans`

are in season.

I love them. But the labor involved to get less than one cup of those suckers from two pounds is just imbalanced.

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Fresh fava beans` (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Jun 2015 OP

But they're so good with LeftofObama Jun 2015 #1

How did I know that someone would say that before I opened the thread? sam_i_am Jul 2015 #3

Pain in the ass but so good. I find it easier to have my friends over, who love them too, to help. Luminous Animal Jun 2015 #2

Do you eat the layer of fuzz from inside the pods? GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #4

LeftofObama

(4,243 posts)

1. But they're so good with

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2015, 05:46 PM

Jun 2015

liver and a nice Chianti.

sam_i_am

(7 posts)

3. How did I know that someone would say that before I opened the thread?

Reply to LeftofObama (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 2, 2015, 05:23 AM

Jul 2015

Anthony Hopkins said he added the sort of slurping sound on his own. The director liked it, of course, and left it in.

Luminous Animal

(27,310 posts)

2. Pain in the ass but so good. I find it easier to have my friends over, who love them too, to help.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2015, 11:58 PM

Jun 2015

A bottle or two of cava, a lovely spanish tortilla, a pile of fava beans, a salad, and then some fresh fruit and cheese.

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)

4. Do you eat the layer of fuzz from inside the pods?

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Sat Jul 4, 2015, 08:39 AM

Jul 2015

We just scrape it out with our teeth. Seasonal delicacy.

At 1:18 here, John shows the fuzz and tells where he got the idea (Peru):

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