Home Cookin’

In addition to Cade’s Cove Pole Beans growing out on the trellis, we have several types of butter beans growing, including Snow on the Mountain, Multicolored, and Dixie Speckled Butterbeans.  They have grown to the top of the 8 foot tall trellis and now the foliage spills over the top and cascades downward.  There is so much foliage it is really hard to see the pods until they dry and turn brown.  That’s when I go out and pick them.

I like growing different types of peas and beans that have different colors, shapes and textures.  Once they are shelled, they are just nice to look at… and good to eat.  Here is a visually appealing bowl of assorted dried butterbeans that I picked.  They are just sitting there on the window sill in the filtered morning sunlight waiting… patiently waiting.  There are also some black-eyed peas and some Ozark Razorback peas mixed in there as well.

Assorted Butterbeans

Tricia knows that there is nothing better (to me and Benjamin) than a bowl of beans & rice or peas & rice.  It is a simple, but healthy and delicious meal.  We were both very happy when we saw what she had simmering in the pot!  Someone put a pot of rice on and we’re good to go.

Just look at this “spoonful” view!

In anticipation of harvesting butter beans, Benjamin and I had been hard at work.  In the Good Book, it says:

“For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.” 2 THESSALONIANS 3:10

We know that one thing that puts a meal of beans and rice over the top is homemade cornbread.  Benjamin and I had been busy grinding corn in the grain grinder and had a fair amount of cornmeal ready to go.  We had put in the work and were ready to eat.

Tricia converted that freshly-ground corn meal into a big pan of cornbread. 

Let’s put all the components of our supper together, sit down, thank God for His Provision and eat.

Butterbeans & Rice... Now you see it,

In a disappearing act that would rival anything that David Copperfield could do, it only took mere minutes for this to take place:

Now you don't

While beans and rice with some cornbread on the side isn’t a meal that you can get at one of those fancy, high-brow restaurants, I’m telling you, it is a hearty, satisfying simple, home-cooked meal that just makes you happy.