TikTok Tuesday: Fava Bean Hummus

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Fa-va-voom! We grew, harvested, and processed fava beans to make a tasty green hummus with them. ##gardendc ##fava ##gardening101 video by @mollycuddy

♬ original sound - Kathy Jentz

By Molly Cuddy

As a summer intern with Washington Gardener, I have a semester-long project that I’ll be working on, and for it I decided to do weekly blog posts. “TikTok Tuesdays” will feature our own TikTok videos on the Washington Gardener account, where we will document what’s happening in our community garden, local events, garden cocktail recipes, etc. Some weeks, I may highlight a creator on the app who posts gardening and/or foraging videos. 

If you’re unfamiliar with TikTok, it’s an app where people can post short videos about pretty much anything. We’ll be posting videos there as much as possible, so you should follow us at @wdcgardener.

This week, as you may have seen in the Fenton Friday blog post, we harvested the Fava beans that had been planted by spring intern Khloe Quill. I took some footage of the other interns, Kathy, and myself getting the beans out of the pods. Kathy blanched the fava beans at home, referencing this Youtube video, and was able to make a delicious green hummus out of the beans and garlic also grown in our plot. You can check out the recipe here: https://ellerepublic.de/en/fava-bean-dip-green-hummus/.

Make sure you to check this blog and our TikTok account next week for another Tiktok Tuesday!

About the Author Molly Cuddy is a journalism major at the University of Maryland, College Park, and an intern this summer with Washington Gardener. She is also a campus tour guide and will be a teaching assistant for a professional writing class next semester.

Fenton Friday: Favalicious

This week at the community garden plot, the weather has been gorgeous! The heat finally broke and it has been amazing with moderate temps and low humidity.

We harvested the fava beans and processed them. They are pictured here shelled from their big, cushiony pod. Then, they still needed to be blanched and the tender inner beans removed and THAT is what you eat. I made them into a green hummus using this recipe. It was delicious! We'll be sharing a TikTok video of the whole process in a few days.

I pulled out one of the garlics to test it out, but I found it a bit small, so I am leaving the rest in for another week of so.

A few berries ripened on the blackberry plants and I got to eat a few of those plus the last of the strawberries and made a few more cuttings from the lettuce for salads.

The carrot tops are up and the 'White Egg' turnips are starting to get large enough to pull a few and try them out.

I planted two types of beans - 'Castandel' bush beans and 'Purple Podded' pole beans along with a mound of 'Lisboa Slicing' cucumber.

I still need to plant the okra seeds and some more cutting flowers. I am also debating on melons. After last year's tragic incident with them, I am hesitant to put so much time and effort in them again. I'll look through me seeds and see if any inspire me to take the plunge again.

How is your edible garden growing?

About Fenton Friday: Every Friday during the growing season, I'll be giving you an update on my community garden plot at the Fenton Street Community Garden just across the street from my house in zone 7 Mid-Atlantic MD/DC border. I'm plot #16. It is a 10 ft x 20 ft space and this is our 8th year in the garden. (It opened in May 2011.) See past posts about our edible garden by putting "Fenton" into the Search box above.

Fenton Friday: Fava Voom

 

This week at the community garden plot, the fava beans have started forming. They are blowing up like balloons! I'll give them another week and then start harvesting a few to try out. I am interested in eating them at the tender stage, rather than dried and saved. Got any good fresh fava recipes?

Elsewhere in the plot, the new summer interns started and we pulled the bolting broccoli plants finally and planted several 'White Fordhook' swiss chard seedlings in their place. We harvested the lettuces and pick strawberries and sugarsnap peas. I cut all the garlic scapes and have them in the refrigerator waiting for a spare hour to make pesto with them.

This next week, we should get the tomatoes and other summer crops in. I also have several kinds of cutting garden flowers I need to find the space for in the plot. Some of those may end up mixed in my home garden beds as well.

How is your edible garden growing?

About Fenton Friday: Every Friday during the growing season, I'll be giving you an update on my community garden plot at the Fenton Street Community Garden just across the street from my house in zone 7 Mid-Atlantic MD/DC border. I'm plot #16. It is a 10 ft x 20 ft space and this is our 8th year in the garden. (It opened in May 2011.) See past posts about our edible garden by putting "Fenton" into the Search box above.