Green Beans - Cooked My Style

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If you grow green beans in your garden, & even if you buy them at the market, this is one recipe I think you'll be making over & over!

You'll need:

1.) Approximately 1/2-lb or 1 lb. green beans (wash, cut off little curly ends & snap into inch to inch-1/2 pieces

2.) Place in pot. Put enough water to cover over --- I usually mix in 1/2" cup of Low-sodium Chicken broth to water for cooking. Cook until beans can be easily pierced w/a fork. Turn off & keep them in pot along w/the liquid they boiled in.

In a frying pan, melt a little bit (about 1/2 tsp.) bacon grease if you have some. (I have a little pot where I pour all my left over bacon grease to add a little bit of flavor to some of my recipes.)

Chop up about 1/3-cup of yellow or white onion, 1/2- tsp. finely chopped garlic, 1 - medium ripe tomato (chopped), (sun kissed garden tomatoes are the best!) & place in frying pan w/melting or hot bacon grease. Mix & saute together but do not allow them to overcook.

Pour in your green beans & reserved liquid into pan & simmer together for about 10 minutes.

You may add a few cubed bits of mozarella cheese & allow cheese to melt w/the mixture or eat them plain if you so desire.

Now enjoy!:)
 
My Mom always sauteed a bit of bacon drippings with green beans. As a young child, I was the bean cutter.
And of course the real treat is simmering them with pears which is correctly called:
Bohnen, Birnen und Speck. (beans, pears and bacon)
 
I recall a summer or two when I was young when my mother put in a particularly enormous garden.
My brother and I got paid ten cents an hour to pull weeds. Ugh!

And I remember the monstrous pots of green beans that had to be washed and snapped.
There were so many, I think I snapped them in my sleep. It took forever.

Although there were very many things my mother cooked fabulously, green beans weren't one of them.
Her recipe was: boil until slimey :eek: .

I only recently began liking green beans again when my husband's (now-late) great aunt taught me how to prepare them--with a bit of bacon and barely done. Yum, yum!

Thanks for the recipes and the stroll down memory lane!
 
I guess this could be done with a little lean bacon and omitting the bacon grease? This recipe sounds fantastico!
 
Wise said:
I guess this could be done with a little lean bacon and omitting the bacon grease? This recipe sounds fantastico!
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The bacon I buy is the Lower-Sodium kind. And it only takes a little bit of it to give your food a great flavor! :)

I use a little bit of bacon grease too when I cook pinto beans. When my pinto beans are nice & tender in the pot, I add a 1/2-tsp of bacon grease & boil them just a bit longer. They come out so tasty!!!

P.S. I want to add too, that previous tests I have undergone, caths, etc., have shown that my arteries are nice & clean, in case you're wondering...... :)
 
I buy the package of fresh haricot vert at Sam's Club (skinny green beans) and I could eat them all for dinner. I have recently been fixing them the way a friend showed me.

Saute finely chopped onion in some olive oil (I use macadamia nut oil. Tobagotwo recommended it and I've replaced a lot of my olive oil use with it.) and put the beans in and cook until al dente. Melt a little pat of butter in the beans and then splash some balsamic vinegar on them and mix. It's good hot or cold.
 
Karlynn said:
I buy the package of fresh haricot vert at Sam's Club (skinny green beans) and I could eat them all for dinner. I have recently been fixing them the way a friend showed me.

Saute finely chopped onion in some olive oil (I use macadamia nut oil. Tobagotwo recommended it and I've replaced a lot of my olive oil use with it.) and put the beans in and cook until al dente. Melt a little pat of butter in the beans and then splash some balsamic vinegar on them and mix. It's good hot or cold.
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Ummmm, this sounds good too! I'll have to try them this way. (I bet you could add a little bit of garlic to the saute mixture too --- I love fresh garlic & use it in a lot of my salsas & foods! :)

Can you buy the "macademia" oil at Sam's, do you know?
 
Unfortunately I haven't found a place to buy the oil other than online.
 
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I make my green beans similar to this, but add in a few new potatos while they cook. New potatos are small, or fingerling, young taters usually dug fresh out of the garden as the plants start to mature. :)Oops, my Appalachian dialect is coming out in my typing....

Put them on a plate, and your tongue will beat your teeth out trying to get to them!!!
 
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