Only after this can you proceed to cooking them. Boil fresh water with sugar (sugar will enhance the flavour of the fava beans—a flat teaspoon per litre of water is enough), and then add the ...

when the pods are pale green and soft and the beans are still small. Only brief steaming or cooking is required when broad beans are in their prime but, as the season progresses, the pods get ...

Do not add salt when cooking kidney beans, as it toughens their skins. Allow about 55g/2oz dried weight per person: once soaked and cooked the beans will at least double in weight. Rinse canned ...

As Mohy is a coward who cannot go along with them, he goes to live with his mother and step-father but they send him to China to represent Egypt in a cooking competition which gets him into a lot ...