General Chat

Last week, I kind of followed a recipe to make butter bean patties but, because I didn't have the tomato chutney it called for, I used some peach chutney I had made but didn't particularly like and, strangely enough, I didn't particularly like the patties either, but we ate them.

Having put the butter beans through the bug blinder, I was thinking that the texture might make a passable sausage meat substitute.

Today, I have made sausages. Tin of butter beans, some stale bread crumbs,onion, herbs I cut in the garden(sage,rosemary,thyme,parsley,chive), egg, bit of marge, couple of green Oxos, black and white pepper and a bit of nutmeg.

To my amazement, they even look like sausages when they are cooked and they taste pretty similar too. I will put more onion in next time because butter beans are a bit dry but will certainly make them again.

Now, what else can I play with?

Ummmm - may I just say, I'm so glad you liked them.


However....Yuk! - by that, I mean, not to my taste :-D :-D

You can't say that until you have tasted them!

True - but butter beans...........

It is not like eating butter beans. They have been through the wibbygizzer.

You should have given the govt tenner off scheme a try. Too late now of course.

Just watching a programme about take away premises.
I'm sure some restaurants are just as dirty.

Besides which, I don't/didn't fancy spending money to catch covid.

Evidently I didn't try the tenner off scheme then, but what that has to do with my making sausages I really don't know.

Ah well.

Butter beans that have been through the liquidizer bear about as much resemblance to whole butter beans as sausage meat does to pork.

I believe you! :-D :-D :-D :-D
I'm sure they were very nice.

No you're not.

Peggy the dog's cute, isn't she?
She looks like a cartoon dog :-D :-D

Shut up!

:-D :-D :-D :-D

What a waste of good butter beans, Sharron! ;-)

Speaking as one who likes them, of course. :-D

...but, if you have an excess of butter beans?

(gags at the thought)

Can they not be frozen like other veg?

I've never tried of course.


Maggie, yuk ??? They're lovely. :-D

It's all a matter of taste, I know. :-)

We like butter beans in stews etc. :-D

We like butter beans in stews etc. :-D

Your recipe sounds very inventive...

I haven't had butter beans for years.
Sadly, I always associate them with primary school dinners, which were brought in in large metal canisters. One of the fairly regular offerings were butter beans to accompany a watery mutton stew.

Mutton stew, creamy mashed potatoes and butter beans - sounds good to me!

Not sure how watery I could take the stew though!