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What movie features fava beans??

The word "Frijoles" where I live is not only is used as a 
generic synonym for "bean" but it is also refers to 
cooking them by mashing and refrying them, as in refried 
beans. Thus, if black beans are prepared this way the menu 
will say frijoles negra, etc. If they are cooked whole in 
their broth they are called "borracho" although I don't 
know what that word might translate to.

Where clhw comes from the chili is really famous. I've not 
seen fava beans served anywhere in Texas. Are they found 
on anyone's regional cafe menu? Bev, you make me laugh, as 
had my one measly plant survived I probably would have 
eaten the whole thing not knowing either. I see that fava 
bean flour is available in health food stores as a wheat 
substitute (that's how I've used it) and found it tasty 
cooking for my husband who suffers wheat allergies. I 
wonder if they grind up the whole thing or go through the 
shelling process to make the flour?

--Sage
way out in Texas

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:45:55 -0400
 EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> clhw wrote:
> > Having never heard of fava beans, I decided to look them 
> > up. One book
> > I have shows a sketch of them and says they resemble 
> > lima beans, but
> > are longer and wider, thus the other name of "broad 
> > beans", which I
> > had also not heard. I looked up the English word "bean" 
> > in my Spanish
> >  dictionary and found "haba" as the entry for "lima 
> > bean". There are
> > also some regional names for beans listed, but the main 
> > entry is
> > "frijole". Where I grew up, in Texas, "frijoles" were 
> > synonymous with
> > chili beans and kidney beans. Favas are not sold around 
> > here, and I
> > don't know that I've ever tasted one. It sounds like a 
> > regionally
> > popular food to me. Is that accurate?
>
> My experience was the same as yours Lynn.  I'd never 
> seen one, or seen a
> seed packet for them. I had never heard of them before 
> the movie.  I
> don't think they are grown here in the South much for 
> some reason.  Mine
> did really well though..planted in the Fall, harvested 
> in early Spring.
>  I am almost embarrassed to admit that I did not know 
> about the double
> shelling thing, and I ate them in the 
> skins..lol..perhaps that is why I
> did not like them??  Ya think? LOL
> So anyway, I actually have a few seeds left, although 
> they are several
> years old.  I'm tempted to try them again this fall, and 
> give them
> another shot at the taste buds sans skins with the 
> garlic and cumin.  If
> I get a decent crop, I'll send you some seeds this time 
> next year and
> you can try it..
>
> Bev
> --
> Bevanron of EarthNSky Farm   Sleep well tonight, for 
> somewhere in the
> ocean's depths, MY son is protecting YOUR freedom.
>
>
>
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