Not here anyway. <grin>
Dragon Tongue beans. They are a flat wax type that does not develop strings until really late in their maturity, taste fantastic, and are a pretty good dry bean as well. My best three plants I am not picking from to save seed for next year. This handful is going to be added to Penne Pesto.
They are really a striking bean. The purple streaks disappear with cooking.
Easy way to tell them if they are cooked through yet. These are not yet in this photo. I sauteed them with bacon to add to the pesto.
At the very end I added fresh chopped basil to the beans. At this point they are cooked and look like a flat yellow bean.
No photos of the finished dish. And it is finished. Having 4 kids means 2 pounds of dry pasta, a full cup of pesto (which Frank and I made last year) half a pound of bacon (and grease) and the beans all tossed together, and all gone 20 minutes later.
