Dried Fava beans are delicious when soaked and steamed, as a vegetable with dinner, in a cream sauce. Dried favabeans keep their fresh taste for ten years when dried, and even sprout again after ten years when planted. The green fava beans are ripe now, 75 days after planting, the beans then dry to deep purple in the pod if left on the plant, and the pods burst and beans shake out easily after another 30 days.

Here is a recipe that is over 8,000 years old. Fresh Fava beans. A spring treat. And the water they are cooked in, called aqua faba, can be whipped into vegan egg-whites , and kept frozen.The white sauce is a classic used on lots of other protein rich dishes.#CA2025

Quicker than opening a can of beans, less expensive, and creamier, fresher tasting, we keep cooked black beans frozen in ice cube trays.The best black beans are pole grown black beans, they are larger. If you have bought beautiful dried black beans, called turtle black beans, or frijoles negros de tortuga, put a handfull in a sunny spot in your garden, they will grow.The frozen precooked black bean ice cubes are one ounce, one tablespoon portions, ready in 2 minutes, microwave heated, for tacos, tostadas, burritos, tamales, salads.For my recipes, I simmer my beans without presoak in a big cast iron pot, three hours, and I add an extra cup of dried black beans to fill an ice cube tray to have handy when needed.

You can make authentic traditional mexican refried beans from pinto beans or black turtle beans. Pinto beans take 13 hours, black beans take 2 1/2 hours.

The garden artichokes are ready! We dip and scrape the steamed outer leaves with our teeth, and marinade the hearts. We marinade two fresh artichoke half hearts at a time. That way we get two appetizer meals out of each artichoke, one fresh now, one marinaded heart coming winter.

Our ripe garden tomatoes are starting to burst in the intense summer heat, all at once. Time to do a quick tomato rescue with lima beans and pork shoulder bone and make half a dozen one pound lunches with pulled pork, steamed tomatoes, ginger and fresh basil. Freezes well, reheats well.#GlobalApron

With this simple recipe, Dried black turtle beans cook much faster than other beans, no overnight soaking needed. Dried beans do not contain salt like canned beans, and taste sweeter when refried.

Fresh corn is ripe to be eaten in summer, and with dried Lima beans, you can make nourishing and delicious succotash in an hour and a half, even with dried beans.Succotash is an american pioneer vegan dinner from the seventeen hundreds with lots of protein.

This is a foolproof farm method to make green as well as black preserved olives, not salty, from the same fresh green local Sevillano olives, grown right here. We make five buckets of five lbs. each, taste one olive once a month till they develop their flavor over the time span of a year till next October harvest. You can use tall plastic food containers with lids, keep the proportions the same, to make smaller quantities.

Thirteen hours of sunlight a day left in September, you need four sunny days, no rain, to sun dry your ripe tomatoes. Lay them out in a line pointing to the south.

Aqua Faba means bean water and is the nourishing thick broth from soaking and cooking dried garbanzo and other beans. It is often thrown away because the foam on top has a bitter taste. We skim the bitter foam off and use the broth, it tastes mild like egg whites in egg drop soups.There is also a fava bean called Aqua Dulce, which is not bitter when soaked and cooked, that can be used with or instead of garbanzo beans.We mixed both beans to make a hearty bean soup dinner served over croutons with poached egg yokes, spiced with harissa sauce and other spices, served with side dishes of pickled cucumber, pickled onions, pickled olives, pickles sweet peppers and chopped cilantro and green onions.If you prefer vegan, you whisk the aqua faba broth till it develops white strings, like eggwhites, use in this soup instead of eggs.#GlobalApron

We make tofu from soy milk. We make a quart of soy milk from a cup of whole non-GMO soybeans. Here is the recipe to make fresh soymilk at home. You also end up with delicious fresh bean cakes for breakfast, when you mix the filtered solids and foam with whipped eggs and some flour.