When it comes to outdoor food, green beans are a perennial favorite
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It's devastating to go wrong. Everybody likes green beans; we do have our preferred recipes, however.
I have an unbroken discussion with my friend Nancy about the "best" way to cook green beans. Her favorite faculty is to blanch fresh beans until barely tender, with or without mollycoddle potatoes, then sizzle them quickly in a dab of butter or olive oil with a sprinkle of herb zest.
I do enjoy beans that way and especially appreciate that it is healthy, low fat and very O. Still, the heart of me loves a pot of green beans (the flat kind, when you can get them) cooked for hours with ham hocks (not bacon, it has to be ham hocks), onion, toddler potatoes, lots of black pepper and a good uproar of cider vinegar.
Sara Anne Corrigan and Jean Wood of Evansville have contributed two luscious recipes based on canned beans, perfect for the cook in a bustle. Wood's beans are baked in a sweet-tangy assortment of tomato catsup, brown sugar and lots of cooked bacon and onions.
Source: Evansville Courier & Press