runner beans beans?

[Meg]

Why can't you use the dried  beans for anything but seeds to go again? I am sure some one can tell me why.

[Meg]

[spacehopper]

I think you can eat them but they need boiling for ages, fine if they are in a slow cooked stew but not handy as a veg.  :)

[Meg]

Dash I only put mine on the compost yesterday.

[terrace max]

Runner bean Czar is often grown just for its white beans - as a substitute for butter beans. The pods taste good too but aren't as prolific as other varieties in my experience...

[Merry Tiller]

Who says you can't use them, I do, they are just as good as kidney beans in a chili for instance

[redimp]

This is what it says on http://www.foodsubs.com/Beans.html

scarlet runner bean = runner bean   Equivalents:  One cup dried beans = 3 cups cooked beans.  Notes:  These large beans are very flavorful, and they work well in salads or as a side dish.   Young pods can be cooked and served like green beans.   Substitutes:   lima beans OR Great Northern bean

and I am trying to find a link that says that Runners are the most flavourful of all beans.  I certainly think so and have a freezer full of frozen podded beans to prove it.  Furthermore, being a vegetarian, I regard myself as a bit of a bean expert.

[spacehopper]

Furthermore, being a vegetarian, I regard myself as a bit of a bean expert.

Ooo, glad I'm not downwind of your plot RC!  ;)

[Meg]

Can't you dry them on a windowsill and they will keep instead of freezing? Suppose I can't go in the compost heap for them now blast next year then!!

[moonbells]

Furthermore, being a vegetarian, I regard myself as a bit of a bean expert.

Ooo, glad I'm not downwind of your plot RC!  ;)

<giggle> I made a tomato and haricot bean cassoulet in the slow cooker the other day, and caught the hubby raiding it on Sunday night.

I got home last night to find him complaining about the consequences  - I just giggled - what on earth did he expect?

moonbells