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What are you eating at Easter?

Marianne72

Having little energy, I'm going to make tiffin for Easter - an easy, no bake fridge cake. As it contains chocolate and biscuits [ginger nuts are very nice in this] I'm going to try not buying easter eggs. I'm hoping to freeze some of the chicken pie I baked today [exhausted after all the work!] and might have that with roasties and broad beans.

Incidentally, does anyone know why the latter seem to have disappeared from the supermarkets? And you never see them or peas in the pod in supermarkets. I must find my nearest farmer's market.

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  • Unless we have visitors the same as I'd normally eat on those days, if we have viisitors then it won't be me who's cooking and I'll have whatever my kids decide to cook for me.

    Not being a Christian, I don't celebrate easter and I rather resent all the assumptions that I do and wish to do so with a load of overpriced chocolate. I'm seeing all the early born lambs being taken off to market now for peoples easter dinners.

    Our tesco does frozen broad beans and morrisons sometimes have fresh ones, I love the feel of the inside of the pods

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I'm not Christian but I like the Easter sentiment of renewal. I usually buy an egg but they are too overpriced - as is all the chocolate. I enjoy tiffin with a large cup of chai.

    I couldn't find any broad beans in Tesco at Barnstaple, so I'll query this. I like the action of shelling. It's very relaxing.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I'm not Christian but I like the Easter sentiment of renewal. I usually buy an egg but they are too overpriced - as is all the chocolate. I enjoy tiffin with a large cup of chai.

    I couldn't find any broad beans in Tesco at Barnstaple, so I'll query this. I like the action of shelling. It's very relaxing.

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  • in reply to Marianne72

    Easter never feels like a time of renewal to me, but of 4 sundays in a week, being bored, being overwhelmed by tourists and hiding away. The Pagan festival of Imbolc feels more of a renewal to me, the first of the snowdrops are coming out and there are new lambs.

  • in reply to DormouseAtRest_25

    Thanks for advising of the growing windows. I had no idea you could grow them in November, so I can do it this year after all. I wonder why they export such a wonderful crop? I love broad beans more than peas. I can't find tinned ones in my usual supermarkets, except Sainsbury's. I must find a farmer's market. There must be one around here. They have such unusual apples too.

  • in reply to Marianne72

    There are two sowing / harvest windows for broad beans (fava beans) in England.

    Outside of these windows - there are available either frozen beans, or tinned (canned) broad beans - already out of their pods, or maybe some imported beans in their pods.

    However, most years, England primarily exports, rather than imports, broad beans.

    In England, broad beans are typically harvested from late May to September, with the peak harvest in June and July.

    The Autumn-sown crops (sown in November) are usually ready by late May / early June.

    While the Spring-sown crops (sown in February – April) usually follow as a harvest in mid-to-late June.

    One thing which might negatively influence this particular year's England-grown broad bean crop: they like free-drained soil. 

    This year's grim Winter weather conditions has seen prolonged flooding in a lot of areas.

    www.bbc.co.uk/.../c62g1kg8p13o

    Unfortunately, in years with very wet growing seasons (as would have been experienced by this year's Autumn-sown crop - the plants in a large scale production setting risk toppling over and damaging the crop. 

    In a garden / allotment setting, home-based growers would have guarded against this by making a stick and string support around the plants to keep them upright despite the worst Winter hurled their way this year.

    I didn't attempt growing broad beans this year (as my small allotment experienced particularly wet conditions this year.

    Maybe you might have good fortune checking out a local Farmer's Market from around late May time in your area - a smaller producer might have done OK with their harvest.