Ack! Bean attack!
Look! I'm fulfilling Donia's wish!
OH MY GOSH!
On Sunday I made a cranberry bean salad to go with my eggplant pasta. I made the beans in the early afternoon so that they would have time to chill and saladify before dinner. I had just finished cooking them when disaster struck… I put them into a tupperware and was just about to put them in the fridge when the temperature caused the beans to JUMP out of my hands and pop the lid of the tupperware off. I guess the bean vapor was getting its adiabatic cooling on. Sure, it's fine when water vapor does it in the atmosphere, but bean vapor expanding in a sealed tupperware leads to problems. Big, scary, messy problems. Beans and bean liquid EVERYWHERE! I screamed. Twice. (Once when they jumped out of my hands, once when they splattered everywhere.)
I didn’t want to start all over again or waste all the beans, so I just scooped them up into the tupperware, rinsed them off, and picked out the hairs (yeah, I shed). Hopefully they didn’t collect too many germs… I haven't gotten sick yet! And think of all the extra nutrients! Floor nutrients, mmmm!
OH MY GOSH!
On Sunday I made a cranberry bean salad to go with my eggplant pasta. I made the beans in the early afternoon so that they would have time to chill and saladify before dinner. I had just finished cooking them when disaster struck… I put them into a tupperware and was just about to put them in the fridge when the temperature caused the beans to JUMP out of my hands and pop the lid of the tupperware off. I guess the bean vapor was getting its adiabatic cooling on. Sure, it's fine when water vapor does it in the atmosphere, but bean vapor expanding in a sealed tupperware leads to problems. Big, scary, messy problems. Beans and bean liquid EVERYWHERE! I screamed. Twice. (Once when they jumped out of my hands, once when they splattered everywhere.)
I didn’t want to start all over again or waste all the beans, so I just scooped them up into the tupperware, rinsed them off, and picked out the hairs (yeah, I shed). Hopefully they didn’t collect too many germs… I haven't gotten sick yet! And think of all the extra nutrients! Floor nutrients, mmmm!
Labels: food
posted by Meg at
5:24 PM
3 Comments:
Boo for bean attack-- but YAY for story about it. :-)
I don't blame you for screaming-- twice.
Attack beans...
*shiver*
--DLB
By
Anonymous, at May 24, 2007 10:04 PM
I think the scary part was when you claim that you picked out all the hairs... Mmmm....These beans taste sorta like Meg...no, I think it's Mitzi...no, Ozzie for sure! :)
-Ben
By
daytoday, at May 26, 2007 5:55 AM
Good for you. You showed those beans that no matter how feisty they behaved, they were destined to be eaten, not wasted.
By
Anonymous, at May 29, 2007 5:38 PM
Post a Comment
<< Home