Lovely pics and recipe, Aglaia - thanks so much. We do get the beautiful speckled cranberry beans grown in the UK and available unpodded in London farmers markets. Global warming, or what?
Thank you for this timely post - I have the last crop of my cranberry beans in the fridge! I live in the UK and cranberry beans, called by their Italian name of borlotti here, are very easy to grow. I haven’t seen them for sale fresh but then I don’t need to buy them …
You can buy them canned in most supermarkets and dried in Turkish grocery shops - probably also dried in supermarkets but I haven’t looked. I usually eat them with the red and white bitter chicory called radicchio, also a great combination.
I look forward to trying this bean recipe. A few years ago I joined a CSA offered by Rancho Gordo, an heirloom bean company in Napa Valley, California. They grow cranberry beans as well as many other unusual, delicious beans. This is also where I get giant Lima bean for gigantes. https://www.ranchogordo.com/products/cranberry-bean?_pos=1&_psq=cranberr&_ss=e&_v=1.0
"Thought to be originally from Colombia, this bean has been bred around the world to become Madeira, Borlotti, Tongues of Fire, Wren’s Egg, and more. In Mexico, you'll find these as Cacahuate (peanut) beans."
I have seen them all over Athens and North Evoia last month. They have not disappeared at all. Even at supermarkets. Perhaps it's a regional thing in Kea?
Love them so much. And I've known them with both names handres and barbounia, I believe they're both used widely, in Athens at least where I'm from.
Thanks for sharing your recipe. Sounds delicious and I agree with you, the amount of flashy ingredients used in a dish don't make for a better dish.
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Lovely pics and recipe, Aglaia - thanks so much. We do get the beautiful speckled cranberry beans grown in the UK and available unpodded in London farmers markets. Global warming, or what?
Thank you for this timely post - I have the last crop of my cranberry beans in the fridge! I live in the UK and cranberry beans, called by their Italian name of borlotti here, are very easy to grow. I haven’t seen them for sale fresh but then I don’t need to buy them …
You can buy them canned in most supermarkets and dried in Turkish grocery shops - probably also dried in supermarkets but I haven’t looked. I usually eat them with the red and white bitter chicory called radicchio, also a great combination.
I look forward to trying this bean recipe. A few years ago I joined a CSA offered by Rancho Gordo, an heirloom bean company in Napa Valley, California. They grow cranberry beans as well as many other unusual, delicious beans. This is also where I get giant Lima bean for gigantes. https://www.ranchogordo.com/products/cranberry-bean?_pos=1&_psq=cranberr&_ss=e&_v=1.0
The heirloom bean company Rancho Gordo grows and sells them in the US.
https://www.ranchogordo.com/products/cranberry-bean
From their website:
"Thought to be originally from Colombia, this bean has been bred around the world to become Madeira, Borlotti, Tongues of Fire, Wren’s Egg, and more. In Mexico, you'll find these as Cacahuate (peanut) beans."
I have seen them all over Athens and North Evoia last month. They have not disappeared at all. Even at supermarkets. Perhaps it's a regional thing in Kea?
Love them so much. And I've known them with both names handres and barbounia, I believe they're both used widely, in Athens at least where I'm from.
Thanks for sharing your recipe. Sounds delicious and I agree with you, the amount of flashy ingredients used in a dish don't make for a better dish.