Vegetarian Pole Beans and Corn recipe

Our garden is doing well!  Today I harvested a heaping handful of pole beans and cooked them up with onions and sweet corn.  Came out very tasty and went nicely as a side dish alongside flounder and salmon fillets and garlic bread.

















Vegetarian Pole Beans and Corn
Big handful of pole beans (ours are Kentucky Wonder)
1 ear of sweet corn, uncooked
1/2 onion, chopped
1/4 banana pepper, finely chopped
1/2 tbsp butter
1 tbsp oil
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp chili powder (or to taste)
pinch of sugar

Heat butter and oil in heavy pot.  Add onions and banana pepper, cook until onions are clear; stir in salt, black pepper and chili powder.
Wash and snap beans into bite-size pieces, removing strings.  Add to pot and stir constantly until beans turn bright green.  Pour enough hot water into pot to cover beans; cook on high until tender, about 20-25 minutes.
Cut kernels from corn cob and add to pot.  Sprinkle in sugar. Cook another 10-12 minutes, stirring occasionally.  Add water as needed.  Taste for salt/pepper.

Now that's a bean

I think it may be time to harvest these pole beans. These vines are the result of 2.5 months of growth since I planted the seeds. They're pretty impressive growing in the kitchen. And I think these pods make the ones at the market look puny. There's only 5 big ones, but the quality makes up for the lack of quantity. The ones closer to the ceiling probably don't get enough sunlight and are much smaller. And 7 flowers/tiny pods fell off and didn't mature at all.

How should we eat them?? Can't decide.....

Tiny discovery

I was checking out my pole bean vines growing in the kitchen today, counting up the pods. There's 5 skinny ones as long as my little finger, a few flowers.... and then I saw this itty bitty pod lying on the floor. It is 1/2 inch long (1.27 cm). Not sure why it fell off the vine, perhaps it was 'rejected'. But on the bright side, it offered me great photo ops.


After a couple hours off the vine it was starting to get limp and bruise easily, might as well slice it open with the exacto knife and get a look at the inside.....
seven tiny beans the size of sand grains!
ohhhhh, sweet :-)