Back from the festival and lots to do, not least tend to our young bean plants and draw out our winner of the guess the bean competition. We have sent an email to Annetta Norris but no reply, so we may have to draw out another name.
We promised that we would anounce the correct answers, so here goes:
1. Runner bean
2. Broad bean
3. Borlotti bean
4. Chickpea
5. Pea
6. Lentil
The young bean line up
Our African Palava is obviously well loved; it’s just been awarded another Gold Great Taste Award 2009
We were feeling very weary on Monday after 3 days at the Real Food Festival in London, but what a great extravaganza of delicious food. I loved the relaxed & informal atmosphere and all the small producers from all over the country. Good to catch up with old friends and also good to offer tastings of easy beans to new palates!
Thought I ought to make an effort - I’ve been pretty useless at posting up our news, my excuse is we always seem to be busy. I look forward to having a few more staff to help with the 101 things to do. I did want to mention that we are going into Ocado this week, only the 3 veg pots but they are on special introductory offer so did give them a go if you haven’t tried them yet and let us know how you serve them.
Well, old bean, it’s been a long time coming but we finally have a bit more web presence. And mighty pleased we are with it too. When I’m not cooking pan-fulls of beans then I’ve been tapping away in the evening dreaming of interesting things to say about beans! I’d be interested to hear what you think? I feel particularly chuffed with the bit on how beans benefit the environment, I guess it highlights all that stuff we used to go on about when we worked in agricultural development.