Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Wing Beans

I was feeling adventurous the other day at the grocery store, so I decided to try some new Asian vegetables.  I'd heard of wing beans, and they looked kind of like fat green beans.  The price for a small bag wasn't too bad, so I bought them. 

A few days later, when I opened the bag to get them ready to steam, I thought they smelled suspiciously like peppers (which we don't really like).  I quickly went to the source of all information, the internet, to see if wing beans were in the pepper family, and if I should cook them differently, etc.  I was quite surprised when google images displayed things that were not wing beans!  At least, not what my wing beans looked like...  ok...  so wing beans really look totally different.

I popped open one of my "wing beans" -- sure enough, it had pepper seeds in it! 

So the moral of the story is... ummm... I don't know.  But does anyone want any skinny green peppers?