Beans, beans the magical fruit....

Yesterday I took the kids with another friend to the "Pickin' Patch". Its a local farm not far from our house where they grow all kinds of vegetables (several of which I have never seen in my life and whose name I have never heard before). Its sort of like a vegetable utopia. You get to pick your own and so I thought it might be a good outing for the kids and I.

So we drove out there and decided on a few vegetables to get and we started with Kentucky wonder green beans. The kids had so much fun picking the beans which were plentiful and easy to find. We didn't have a camera because Andy has it in Denmark. After only like 15 minutes my little migrant workers had picked nearly 4 pounds. We decided to stop there with the beans.

After that we got some green peppers at 3/$1.00 and at that price I couldn't resist getting a lot. We bought about 9 green peppers and although there were tons of other varieties of peppers there I didn't know if I would have a reason to use them in the next week or so. All in all it was a fun little activity. The best part was that in the end when we paid for our produce - the total for our spoils was only $6.10. For that price I almost wanted to go back and get more just because.

Afterwards we washed and started to take the ends off of the beans in prep for the fridge or freezer and the kids attempted to help me. Corilynn was the most useless as she just sat and ate and ate and ate the raw green beans until we were finished. So it looks like with all that fiber she may be starting a self colon cleanse here soon. Last night we delighted in lasagna for dinner with olive oil and sea salt green beans under the broiler with Parmesan cheese on top. Deliciouso!