Vanilla beans

A good find for today! Its just like finding a treasure.  Vanilla beans.  If only i could avoid the synthetic flavors I would, but its quite expensive so it is sparingly used for special recipes only :).

Mission (note to self) find the plant,  so my recipes will be vanilla blissed! 

Below is the bean cut in half and the intense flavor of vanilla is in the black tiny seeds that you can scrape from inside the bean.

Below is the whole vanilla bean.