What type of pea is that? The stalk looks very robust and green, quite unlike the sweet peas I typically grow.
I just noticed that I confused pea with bean. That in the picture is a bean.. My bad.
Anyway: Its a sup species of Vica Faba I don't know the english word for it. It's a bean that you seed in late autumn and can harvest earlier than most beans.
The English word for these is Fava beans
No worries at all. Nice beans.
How are these prepared and cooked? I tried growing them once and found it hard to open them up and remove the skin- a lot of work! Is there a trick?
To be honest, its the first time for me growing them. So I'll still have that experience. But I heard that you can "just pop them open" when they're ripe. But that maybe also depends on the specific species.
I plan to can them, use them as side dished (just cooked and with some herbs and spices) or in different chilli.
Yum yum! Good luck with that, it sounds delicious. I love big beans like that.
Do you use a pressure canner when canning? I always thought it would be cool to get into but it seemed a little difficult.
I own a pressure cooker. Works the same as a pressure canner as far as I know, just isn't as big. It isn't as bad as you think. The first time I also was a bit nervous but it really is worth eating your own canned food.
You can actually use a pressure cooker?! A lot of the things that I had read said that you could not (probably wanting to sell me some sponsored pressure canner or something). What you said makes sense though so I may have to give it a try! Thanks a lot!
Yes, pressure cooker and pressure canner work the same. They use high pressure to reach higher temperatures - that higher temperature kills more bacteria.
A pressure canner still might be useful, because most pressure cookers aren't as big as the canners. I only use the cooker because I already had one way before I thought about canning stuff and because here in germany most canning still is done with hot water rather than in steam and therefore pressure canners are harder/more expensive to come by.
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