Bikes & Food 06 Aug 2006 06:03 pm
local food: Lebanese green beans
My One Local Summer meal for this week is a little earlier than usual. I made a Lebanese green bean dish called “Lubyi bi Zayt”, “green beans in olive oil”, based on this recipe from Dove’s Eye View. I wussed out on the olive oil, using only about 1/4 cup, and used extra garlic. The green beans and garlic were from my own garden.
It was really good, but it would have been even better with some sort of flatbread to accompany it. Maybe next time.
I remember the soggy canned green beans of my youth, all grey and awful and dispirited, without even a dressing to hide their miserable nature. These are not like those. Still, I always think twice before cooking green beans. It takes me a moment to remember, “No, I like green beans, even cooked.”
To keep the day’s eating geopolitically balanced, Josh and I took the tandem down to Leah’s Bakery, but it was closed unexpectedly. So instead we had dessert at Hot Dish and toddled down to the Boulevard Grocery for a soda. Some numbers: 3.5 miles (furthest ever), top speed 22 mph (fastest ever), and 64th St. (steepest and most potholes ever).