| Broad Bean Redefinition Fail - KKC Live 1, Day 1 | Hugh 2009-06-03 14:14:00 UTC |
(Part 1) So, about 6pm, we fired up the live stream, got a’twittering, fired up the TwitPic, and … promptly went shopping.
Meanwhile, our charming viewers, bereft of our presence on the live chat, started a lively discussion as to which of our many ingredients we’d forget on our return. We scoffed, and headed deeper into the cyclopean expanse of the local 24-hour Tesco. A sudden win – half-price blueberries – was followed by a loss – Tesco being out of all other soft fruit. Warning: Out Of Fruit Error. But everything else fell before the swathe of our mighty shopping prowess – until we hit the Fava Beans. First question: WTF is a Fava Bean when it’s at home? We assumed it was something terribly sophisticated, and possibly found in the “To Eat With Human Flesh” aisle. Our viewers quickly put us right.
We’d found ghee. We’d found chickpea flour (tip – also called “Gram Flour”, found in the speciality baking aisle). How hard could a feckin’ broad bean be? Well, we checked the canned beans. No juice. More surprisingly, also no broad beans. We checked the dried beans. We checked the fresh beans. How many goddamn bean sections does this supermarket have? We checked the OTHER dried bean section. We asked a member of staff. She asked another member of staff. And then Alex shouted “AHA!”, and it was indeed a mighty “AHA!”. See, it turns out… Broad beans are in fact peas. According to Tesco. | |
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