Edamame

The edamame (immature, green soybeans) are ready to be boiled in salty water and served with beer. I'm sure you can use them in other dishes (we sometimes use them like peas, mixed with rice or stir fried with some meat or tofu) but I like them best with my beer on a hot afternoon. We seem to be having plenty of those. This global heat wave has not lost its power on us.

We don't spray our beans, so you see that the leaves are pretty well devoured by worms. The soy beans grow anyway, even if the majority of leaves are eaten but the farmers will spray crop beans to ensure better yields.