These purple beans taste very similar to regular green beans, although they were a little tougher. They are also purple, which was sort of surprising. But then, when you cook them, something very odd happens - they turn green! We were most impressed
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Magic Food
While we did not have to trade a cow for these beans, they were grown by monks and they are magic. Actually, the Buddist monks who cultivate the pesticide-free farm where these particular plants were grown, also grow plants just for the bugs to eat. After all, bugs are important living things, too. 
These purple beans taste very similar to regular green beans, although they were a little tougher. They are also purple, which was sort of surprising. But then, when you cook them, something very odd happens - they turn green! We were most impressed
These purple beans taste very similar to regular green beans, although they were a little tougher. They are also purple, which was sort of surprising. But then, when you cook them, something very odd happens - they turn green! We were most impressed
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We have them here, also andyour dad even ate them.
css
Except the ones we have here aren't magic.
What color was the water when you were done cooking them?
kathy t
okay, so maybe they aren't magic. but they were still way fun to watch. And the water was green afterwards. It would have been much more exciting if the water had turned purple. Ah well.
Hi- David and I have had them in Boulder, too. If you catch them when you are cooking them before they are green, and put them in an ice water bath, they will keep their purple color. If they are half cooked, you get spots of purple on the beans.
My preschool class at the Jewish day school thinks they are magic. I think beans that change color when cooked are a magical part of nature. There is the bracha that ends "shecacha lo b'almo" which means who makes things as this in his world that applies to beautiful things in nature.(you just start the bracha as any other and end with those words after melech ha olam) Maybe this bracha is a way to express the "magic" feeling?
Mazal Tov on your wedding. I have been keeping up on your lives by reading the blog regularly- I have enjoyed it. I know we met before in State College a few years ago on Thanksgiving before David and I got married. We hope we will see you some time in the future!
-Rebecca Swartz (David Scherba's Wife)
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