Edamame!

What is edamame?
According to this website:  http://www.edamame.com/

"Edamame is a green vegetable more commonly known as a soybean, harvested at the peak of ripening right before it reaches the "hardening" time. The word Edamame means "Beans on Branches," and it grows in clusters on bushy branches. To retain the freshness and its natural flavor, it is parboiled and quick-frozen. In East Asia, the soybean has been used for over two thousand years as a major source of protein. Edamame is consumed as a snack, a vegetable dish, used in soups or processed into sweets. As a snack, the pods are lightly boiled in salted water, and then the seeds are squeezed directly from the pods into the mouth with the fingers."

The cool thing about edamame?  All the beans on any given plant mature at the same time.  When the beans are done, the entire plant is done.  We harvested just over 3 pounds of beans from our two 10-foot rows.


And my definition of edamame?  Delicious!