[Growster...]

I like the idea of soup, and also just using the beans dressed in a sauce.  I guess you can treat them pretty much like borlotti etc., so as well as Mrs B's bbq tomato sauce, perhaps they'd be good with a garlic and lemon dressing like I sometimes do with broad beans.  Mind you, that wouldn't do a lot to disguise the colour ... maybe we could just eat them blindfold!!!   

That sounds great Cheshers, and rather tempting with the garlic etc, just say that I may pose the question with Mrs G at an opportune moment...;0)

I'm actually trying on the grunddfurldd aas wqe spleeks...[=*

[Mrs Bee]

Have been pondering the question of has beans and colours while eating supper and..... it came to me.

make a chilli with the beans and everthing will be brown chilli colour.

[cheshirecheese]

Cheshire, I think the eating with a blindfold is a no go. You really don't want a fork up the nose do you.

Now there's posh ... you use cutlery do you??!!! 

[Mrs Bee]

 

Yep, even with fish and chips.
Whilst I am happy to use fingers i have a son and OH who don't like to get fingers sticky. 

OH even uses a fork for cakes

[SnooziSuzi]

I'm actually growing runner beans this year ONLY for the dried beans for chillies and soups - they are the same beans that are sold in tins as kidney beans

[mumofstig]

My Spagna Blanca runnerbeans have huge beans inside, more like butter beans - I'm growing them to shell dry as well

[Growster...]

The dried beans we buy as butter beans usually shed their skins during the soaking and boiling, so perhaps that might happen if they were allowed to dry naturally, like we do next year's broad bean seed?

Mums, they sound marvellous too! Snoos, do you just lay 'em out to dry?

[SnooziSuzi]

....Snoos, do you just lay 'em out to dry?

Well, this is the first year that I've tried this, so I was just going to play it by ear and let them mature on the plant and lay them out afterwards

[Madame Cholet]

I grow a few borlottis to dry each year I shell them and lay on atray in the kitchen.