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How Often Do You Make Fresh Green Beans?

ECBG — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:32:30 GMT

I absolutely love green beans with everything! I love to cook a big pot of green beans and just warm smaller amounts with meals.

You would be more likely to find two green vegetables on my table than several white or yellow ones. I only serve one starch. Bread counts as a seperate food group because of the photo chemicals.

I have green beans for every holiday meal, and our grandsons always, always eat for me.

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blackhole99 — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:39:57 GMT

One of my least favorite green veggies, if I do eat them, it's picked fresh and raw with salad dressing over them.

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millieshops — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:43:40 GMT

@ECBGI share your love of fresh green beans. Because I cook for one, I really like to buy them a huge handful at a time and I pretty much do that every week when I can find them loose - especially at a farm stance or an outdoor market.

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PA Mom-mom — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:46:06 GMT

@ECBG LOVE green beans! I do the usual PA Dutch things with them, but the very best is fresh from the garden, place in large frying pan, add some water, butter, salt; cover and bring to boil over high heat. Cook off the liquid and take off the heat. The whole process takes about 4-8 minutes depending on the thickness of the beans. They should be slightly al dente. I consider them a starch as well as a green.

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kittyloo — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:46:14 GMT

@ECBG have you tried them oven roasted? delish!! i love to put the roasted ones cold in my salad.

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Jtdmum — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:47:56 GMT

Any time I can find them! Yum! Even love them raw in salads.

The flip side is I hate, hate, hate canned beans. Mush. Taste nothing like a bean!

Frozen are ok, but fresh are the best!

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Carmie — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:50:33 GMT

We eat them a few times a week, they are eaten warm as a side and sometimes cold with oil and vinegar and a sprig of mint as a salad.

I also cook with them in soup and make ham, green beans and potatoes.

A few bags are always on my weekly grocery list. I buy them already washed and ready to cook most of the time.

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kittyloo — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:51:55 GMT

and thanksgiving is coming!!!! how many will be subject to that canned green bean casserole!!!!

i will just say, that was not something ever found on our thanksgiving table. i know many people adore it. blech!!

my mom always made fresh green beans with bacon, onions, and stewed tomatoes. yumm

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Nonametoday — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:57:21 GMT

There is a delicious firebirds wood fired grill spiced green beans recipe on line that I love. I like green beans cooked the traditional way by adding to salted water and add a Goya pork boullion cube, a pinch of sugar and some olive oil but I love that Firebirds Wood Fired Grill spiced green bean recipe so much that I make it often for pot-luck get-togethers.

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ECBG — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:07:34 GMT

@kittyloo wrote:
@ECBG have you tried them oven roasted? delish!! i love to put the roasted ones cold in my salad.

@kittylooOOoooooo.......please tell me how you do that! Sounds ultra yummy!

Re: How Often Do You Make Fresh Green Beans?

ECBG — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:11:33 GMT

@Jtdmum wrote:
Any time I can find them! Yum! Even love them raw in salads.

The flip side is I hate, hate, hate canned beans. Mush. Taste nothing like a bean!

Frozen are ok, but fresh are the best!

@JtdmumCanned green beans taste exactly like the can to me.

I liked the flavors of green bean casserole but couldn't stand the can taste. I replaced the canned green beans with frozen French cut green beans. It was really good, but I usually don't try to add calories to vegetables except for a little butter to release the fat soluable vitamins.

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OKPrincess — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:14:11 GMT

Back in the day, my aunts canned green beans as well as other veggies.

The best green beans ever..

So in answer to the question, no I don’t prepare green beans.

Re: How Often Do You Make Fresh Green Beans?

ECBG — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:14:59 GMT

@Nonametoday wrote:
There is a delicious firebirds wood fired grill spiced green beans recipe on line that I love. I like green beans cooked the traditional way by adding to salted water and add a Goya pork boullion cube, a pinch of sugar and some olive oil but I love that Firebirds Wood Fired Grill spiced green bean recipe so much that I make it often for pot-luck get-togethers.

@NonametodayI use Goya pork seasoning in the packets and a little worcheschire sauce. I also cook greens and collards with it.

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NicksmomESQ — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:16:11 GMT

Never. I’m not a green bean lover. 😂

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froggy — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:20:14 GMT

Never! I don't like green beans.

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kittyloo — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:28:33 GMT

@ECBG super simple. wash cut your beans as usual. pour out onto a cookie sheet. drizzle with olive oil. sprinkle with a little sea salt. sometimes i add some fresh garlic. take your spatula and "toss" to coat.

cook in a hot oven 400. after about 10 mins. or so, turn and toss a little, cook maybe another 10 mins. the ends will be slightly browned. soooo good. i also do this with cauli, brussells, (the fallen off leafs make chips) broccol florets. i like to put all in a tupperware, and throw on a bed of mixed greens with a little protein. you can really change it up easily. onions are good as well.

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BirkiLady — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:55:40 GMT

@kittyloo YUM!

Delighted someone else cannot stand that gross greenbean casserole! My MIL made it too often. It was her favorite dish for decades. SMH

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RedTop — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:57:49 GMT

A couple of times during the summer. Here in WV, we don’t have access to fresh green beans from November thru April. Everything is frozen or canned.

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ECBG — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:57:52 GMT

@PA Mom-mom Thought you might like to see this.

Non-starchy vegetables include leafy greens like collard greens, mustard greens, spinach, and turnip greens. ... Other examples of non-starchy vegetables are artichokes, asparagus, beets, cauliflower, carrots, cucumbers, eggplant, green beans, peppers, and zucchini.

(I do consider carrots a sugary vegetable. The sugar begins to metabolise in the mouth.).

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Warrior2022 — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 02:49:17 GMT

We always have fresh green beans on hand. The dog loves them for a treat. For ourselves, we roast them, air fry them, steam them, saute them.

Haven't hand grren bean casserole in years, but it's ok, with fresh green beans, Green beans with tomatoes is IMO disgusting.