Poor @hailey.at@bsky.brid.gy had been betrayed by her own creation.
#beans
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#beans
The pigeon peas at my bf's farm are going off right now and I'm helping him shell them. It's pretty tedious and time-consuming, but I hate seeing good food go to waste, and these beans are good.
I've been shelling in the evenings when I don't have homework. I put on a show and get into a shelling flow state.
Shelling presents many opportunities for contemplation. I think about how much time and work goes into getting food to the table, and how it's all abstracted away and hidden by the almighty supermarket (and all the processes that bring food from all over the world to supermarkets).
I think about how little $ is earned by the people who grow, harvest, and process the food that ends up on supermarket shelves (I know that beans have large-scale processing machines, but it's still a lot of $ and work to acquire and run them). If a bag of beans is $3 for us, how much went to the people who grew and harvested and processed it?
I love food and I love processing food. A plant worked so hard to make the food, and a person worked so hard to give the plant the conditions and environment that it needs to make the food. I feel like I have to honor all that effort and help process the food and make sure it gets into a belly. Plus I love tasty food, so it's selfish too 😋
Honestly, processing food is my favorite productive procrastination. "Ohhh I can't do a bunch of annoying bushwhacking - this jackfruit has to get processed NOW! It's gonna go bad!" And at the end, you have a bunch of tasty food! Often, enough to share. I love being able to be generous with food.
I also think about how devalued this kind of labor is. Often, no one wants to do it. It takes forever, it doesn't feel like you've accomplished much at the end because a giant bucket of pigeon peas becomes a mere pound of shelled beans - but! When you know how hearty and nutritious that pound is, and how much sustenance that pound will provide, it feels like wealth ♥️. it's just like other kinds of care work in that it's cyclical, which is frustrating for some people (there will always be more dishes, there will always be more laundry), but I'm ok with it.
I like the work of maintaining living things and ecosystems, and cycles make sense to me. I live in cycles and when I participate in the cycles of the plants around me (planting when it's time to plant, harvesting when they're ready, processing when it's harvested), I feel embedded in the natural cycles around me. It's easy when I operate on the schedule of the plants and weather...I let them take the lead and just follow along.
Then I think about the way that growing food and eating from the garden requires patience, a willingness to do the cyclical care work that's required, on the schedule of the plants (not on your own schedule), and doing things the right way (no cutting corners - if you cut corners, you might not have a harvest).
Interestingly, *doing* this work *develops* the necessary patience and the understanding that you are a part of the environment and not its director. You can read about it all you want, but you won't know for sure until you live it. Shelling beans and pulling weeds is what gives you this perspective: "this is what it takes to have food. It's a lot of work, but I feel grateful and lucky that the land rewards my work with this bounty that literally feeds me." And that's why Hawaiians call the land 'aina (from 'ai, which means food). 'aina is that which feeds. ♥️
New beans and lentils delivery from France! Four months ago I came across sabarot.com which delivers to Ireland from Le Puy, where the famous Puy lentil originates, and I ordered over 10kg of beans and lentils. They were really good, so much better than anything we can buy here, and I would know as I pretty much on live on beans and lentils. So this time I ordered 15kg. How long will they last? #vegan #beans
I’ve always gone for espresso / americano with dominant chocolate and almond notes. Let's see how this one turns out.
(pardon the bad photo, I could never take good photos in the first place)
We have this family favorite recipe — one pan pasta. The sausage goes into the pan first, then garlic, then pasta with broth, then spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, toasted pine nuts, and Parmesan. From start to finish, amazing dinner is on the table in under 20 minutes with one pan to wash.
On the kitchen windowsill, there was a bowl of dried beans saved from the summer garden. Time to use them. My original thought was that Tuscan soup with sausage and escarole.
Then, the two ideas merged.
Here’s one pan of beans and sausage. The process was the same as pasta, only beans were precooked the night before, escarole replaced spinach, and peppers represented red instead of tomatoes.
Oh, and I added red onions. Why not?
Success.
#food #cooking #beans #escarole #sausage #onepanmeal #easydinner #kitchenlife #coldweather
#cookingtherapy
On the kitchen windowsill, there was a bowl of dried beans saved from the summer garden. Time to use them. My original thought was that Tuscan soup with sausage and escarole.
Then, the two ideas merged.
Here’s one pan of beans and sausage. The process was the same as pasta, only beans were precooked the night before, escarole replaced spinach, and peppers represented red instead of tomatoes.
Oh, and I added red onions. Why not?
Success.
#food #cooking #beans #escarole #sausage #onepanmeal #easydinner #kitchenlife #coldweather
#cookingtherapy
With a twist, the cat settled on the brood's shoulder. "She is staying with us until he returns."
Boris sighed, "Fine."
"And you're going to take care of her. Scoop her litter. Feed her. Brush her." She hefted the cat and raised her into the air, "And clean out her teeny little #beans because she's a LADY!"
"Beans?" Boris wiped his glasses, "I'll try not to fart" and earned himself a smack on his ass. 3/3
#wss366
"Oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi!" shouted the kids, enthusiastically flinging roasted soybeans out the door of their apartment in celebration of Setsubun. The roasted #beans (and the chant) drive away oni (demons) and summon good fortune.
Good fortune for the demons too. Hungry young ones roamed the corridors of apartments, gobbling up the beans. Unlike the human children, who were instructed to eat only as many beans as they were years old, the demons gorged freely.
English breakfast. 🥓
📸 on Oct 4, 2014 with Sony NEX-6.
(16mm, ƒ/5, 1/60s, ISO 1600)
#london #ham #tomatoes #beans #coffee #friedegg #mushroom #sausage #unitedkingdom
📸 on Oct 4, 2014 with Sony NEX-6.
(16mm, ƒ/5, 1/60s, ISO 1600)
#london #ham #tomatoes #beans #coffee #friedegg #mushroom #sausage #unitedkingdom
Wandering #peets in my area. Knows how to lounge.
Every silly meme site that is so very official looking is #beans for bots that will confidently fart out some bullshit later.
And so it begins…
New day, woke up to -7 feels like -17, is it any wonder i took the week off? Any how, to breakfast, hash brown patty in the air fryer, container of overnight oats in a pot of water, summer sausage and Gouda ready for the omelet, beans for the side, and the all important coffee
#Breakfast #eggs #cheese #beans
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