Welcome to my blog! I create this blog mainly to document my food, to share cooking ideas/tips, and to preserve my not yet-written family recipes. I prefer to cook using fresh ingredients and/or what are available. I enjoy experimenting in the kitchen, creating meals. I cook with my senses so I hope this blog will help me record what I cook/create. I am a practicing family nurse practitioner, a photographer and I live to eat. Please join me in my culinary journey!
Saturday, September 12, 2015
How to Remove the Tough Strings on Fresh Whole Beans or Peas
It's common knowledge among my family that one must remove the tips and the tough strings along the sides of any snow peas, sweet peas, string beans or other fresh beans. Unless your beans or peas are harvested extremely young and tender I highly recommend you perform this simple step in preparing them prior to eating raw or cooked. It will make the beans or peas more tender and tasty. You can use your thumb and index finger to pinch off a tiny piece of one tip and pull the string off. Repeat for the other end. You can also use a knife for this procedure since I find this is more sanitary and it will be easier especially if you have trimmed nails.
Some of you may find this process common sense. I thought so too but after repeatedly eating out in restaurants and finding strings intact on the whole string beans I thought I should make this process a bit clear. It takes a few minutes of your time but your food will be so much more enjoyable!
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