Crowdsourcing Insanity

It's not a "Nissan Snail."

Nissan gave it a much better name.

... then finding out that they're a staple crop of tons of different cultures in eastern countries, and the "toxic" properties is in the fully mature fresh beans, or the fully mature dried beans...

....the toxicity being cyanogenic compounds which are made safe by boiling or roasting.

You know, like a good 90% of other bean crops out there?

On youtube, there's tons of recipes using Hyacinth beans; here's one of them :D

So, now I've got some Hyacinth Beans from the dried bean section of the local asian supermarket, they've soaked in water overnight, and are going to get planted in the garden later today or tomorrow :)

For anyone who missed my random "Beginner Gardening on a budget" post, pretty much any whole, dried bean you buy at the grocery store can be directly sowed in your garden, either with prior soaking in water (aka, when you're soaking beans to cook them, just reserve a small handful to pop into the garden before boiling), or direct sow them dry from the bag.

Water them in very well, put a light mulch over top (which can be anything from wood chips, to shredded leaves, etc), and keep the area moist like you would any other directly-sown crops, and soon you'll have beans!

Ok, I have to point out this one scene in ‘Can Lying Be Good?’ because after watching it again - and now knowing that Patton is really Deceit - it has me absolutely d y i n g  because you can see Deceit’s genuine reaction to Thomas losing it when he suggests Joan being murdered.

@heckoffmate

you have inspired me.

Dorothy L. Sayers, and by extension Lord Peter Wimsey, are extremely uncomfortable with this aspect of their genre. It gets openly reckoned with and worried about.

Margery Allingham avoids it. She actually has a bit of a line in Disney Villain Deaths to avoid the necessity of anyone killing her murderers or sentencing them to death.