Another vegetable thread.

[Walden]

I grew up eating the green beans my great grandmother raised, which were pinto beans. I don't care much for the round waxy green beans, like they sell at the grocery store.

[emmline]

But Walden, pinto beans and green beans aren't the same thing unless you mean you ate not-quite-ripe pinto beans which were therefore green.
Or maybe this is one of those colloquial discrepancies.

[djm]

Are you referring to beans that are stripped out of the pod, or to string beans?

djm

[Cynth]

Oh, I see I have the same question everyone else has. Did the pinto beans look like what I would call string beans or green beans? As emmline says, were they immature pinto beans? Did you eat the pod, as djm says, or just the seeds?

[Jack]

Oh, Walden, I see these people who've responded so far are clearly deprived!

Pinto beans, for those who don't know, grow in a green outer case like all other beans and can be eaten that way too.

I'm shocked people didn't know that!

[Jack]

These are pinto beans:
http://www.ccmoore.com/images/Pinto%20Beans.jpg

And so are these:
http://users.tcworks.net/~dandacrum/gar ... pallet.jpg

[cowtime]

That's one strange pinto bean plant there, Cranberry. Could it be the elusive strawberry pinto?

Grandma use to always have strings of pintos still in the hull of course, hanging to dry in a spare room of her house.



As for green beans, my favorite is the half-runner. Can't beat them fresh out of the garden cooked with a little fat back and served up with sweet corn and tomatos since they are usually ready at the same time. Ummm.

If all I had to eat were the green beans cooked like they do in the northern reaches, forget it. There's no comparison.

[Cynth]

The dry pinto beans are a staple in many people's diets
and are in all the stores.


But young green pinto beans in the pod are something I
will have to look forward to trying some day.

[Jack]

That's one strange pinto bean plant there, Cranberry. Could it be the elusive strawberry pinto?

Grandma use to always have strings of pintos still in the hull of course, hanging to dry in a spare room of her house.



As for green beans, my favorite is the half-runner. Can't beat them fresh out of the garden cooked with a little fat back and served up with sweet corn and tomatos since they are usually ready at the same time. Ummm.

If all I had to eat were the green beans cooked like they do in the northern reaches, forget it. There's no comparison.

I don't know what makes them particularly "strawberry" but I've eaten them before...they're certainly pinto beans.

I would never in my life put cow fat (or pig fat) in them, though. That's like contamination or something.

[Wombat]

Another complication is that green beans that look like string beans very rarely have strings in them these day, at least around here they don't. There is a green bean rather like a dried Pinto but I forget its name.

[spittin_in_the_wind]

That's one strange pinto bean plant there, Cranberry. Could it be the elusive strawberry pinto?

Grandma use to always have strings of pintos still in the hull of course, hanging to dry in a spare room of her house.



As for green beans, my favorite is the half-runner. Can't beat them fresh out of the garden cooked with a little fat back and served up with sweet corn and tomatos since they are usually ready at the same time. Ummm.

If all I had to eat were the green beans cooked like they do in the northern reaches, forget it. There's no comparison.

I don't know what makes them particularly "strawberry" but I've eaten them before...they're certainly pinto beans.

I would never in my life put cow fat (or pig fat) in them, though. That's like contamination or something.

That second picture is a strawberry plant, Cran. It looks like you got the wrong link.

Robin

[Jack]

That's one strange pinto bean plant there, Cranberry. Could it be the elusive strawberry pinto?

Grandma use to always have strings of pintos still in the hull of course, hanging to dry in a spare room of her house.



As for green beans, my favorite is the half-runner. Can't beat them fresh out of the garden cooked with a little fat back and served up with sweet corn and tomatos since they are usually ready at the same time. Ummm.

If all I had to eat were the green beans cooked like they do in the northern reaches, forget it. There's no comparison.

I don't know what makes them particularly "strawberry" but I've eaten them before...they're certainly pinto beans.

I would never in my life put cow fat (or pig fat) in them, though. That's like contamination or something.

That second picture is a strawberry plant, Cran. It looks like you got the wrong link.

Robin

Hmm...I just googled for a picture of a bean bush and that one came up. I know pinto beans grow like that (on a green bush)-- because I've picked them (or mabey I'm just crazy and imagined it?)!!

[Jack]

Oh my heavens. I just clicked it again and looked. I am so retarded. Yes, yes, I pick pinto beans from strawberry plants. I have no idea how I didn't notice that. LMAO.

[Walden]

Yes... pinto bean pods... they must be picked very young, but they are very good.

[missy]

Cran- we always called these "Shelley" beans.



then you have "leather britches" and "greasy beans".......