Green beans

harvestmoon

Hi all
Grown some Blue Lake green beans. Unfortunately, been in France for a month and returned to some VERY LARGE beans. We feel that they have maybe grown too large - around 5-6 inches and quite fat. Some have split up the seam ( I have thrown those away!)
I have split one open myself and the kidney shaped beans inside are either green with a black section or all black.
My question is, are they beyond hope or can I still cook and eat them? Also, if you were me, how would you cook them?
Many thanks for any advice you can offer me - before I chuck them ! !!

lyndorset

They will be useable ideally in a slow cook stew or casserole! These good big beans will make idela seeds for next year as due to the size and if the been has started to go a bit dry, means all the goodnes has gone to the seed.

Thats what I would do with them.

Primrose

Don't chuck them. Blue Lake beans are lovely but they do need to be picked quite small, and if yours are all knobbly they will have developed too far to be edible. Either dry the pods and save the seeds for sowing next year, or store the dried beans in a jar for soaking overnight and then cooking in caseroles. The other thing you can do, if you're a home-made soup maker, is to cook all the beans whole for about 10 minutes and simply save the cooking water to use as a vegetable base stock. The beans will be inedible though (tough and stringy) and will have to be thrown away.

Farway

Aren't haricot beans dried French beans? I always thought they were one & the same

So use a you would haricot beans, stews etc as suggested