Fresh Fava Beans – What Does Sunrise Taste Like?

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What Does Sunrise Taste Like?

You don’t need to be ready. You just need to stand up.

That’s what my master used to say — not about beans exactly, but about everything. Cooking, she believed, isn’t something rigid that goes only with recipes, structured and defined. It’s something unique and flexible. Everyone has their own way of doing it, depending on their culture, their mood, what they’re motivated by that day. What matters is to experience, to care, and to repeat — over and over, with many different ingredients — until you can improvise, until you can make something new out of what’s simply there.

Ezme is the indispensable of Anatolia. Any ezme. Fresh bakla, young and tender, goes a different way entirely , that’s zeytinyağlı bakla, whole pods slow cooked in olive oil, eaten in spring while the season still allows it. But there is abundance of it, and once they grow past their moment , bigger, tougher, no longer fit for the delicate dish they were meant for, that’s when they become fava beans, and this ezme is what you make of them. You can make it from dried fava too, but it’s never quite the same. Frozen holds a different memory than fresh, and fresh holds a different memory than dried. —> read more on comments