Last Saturday at our farmer's market at Shaker Square in Cleveland, one of the farmers was selling fresh soy beans still on the stalk (above, photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman). It's a great way to sell them. I don't mind doing the picking of my own beans (he charged $3.50 for what amounted to a pound of soybeans). "They'd be a lot more expensive if I had to pick them," he told me.
These beans, often sold cooked as edamame (their Japanese name), are so good when you cook them yourself, a delicious nourishing snack or a great ingredient.
To prepare the soy beans, simply boil them in their pods until they're tender, then chill them in ice water or in plenty of continuously running cold water. They pop right out of the pod. You can simply sprinkle a bowl of ...
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