Green beans, growing, canning, freezing and green bean recipes
Food & Cooking Tips
Enjoying fresh green beans.
This
is a site all about green beans. We want you to enjoy them from the ground
up! We have planting tips and tips about canning and freezing your fresh
home grown green beans. We also have fabulous green bean recipes that
are sure to become family favorites.
Now is the time to get out the gardening catalogs to choose the perfect
green beans to plant in your home garden. Will you choose bush or pole
plants? If you're considering growing green beans for the first time you'll
be happy to know that green beans are easy to grow and harvest.
Please check out our pages on how
to grow green beans for gardening tips.
It's time to get the grill out and cleaned off. If you're like us you
love summertime entertaining. We've expanded our recipes to include easy
and tasty barbecue recipes.
Check out our easy bbq recipes here!
Green Beans have world wide food appeal!
Every culture has their own
favorite ways to cook green beans.
Asian cultures add spices like garlic, ginger, scallions, chili paste
and soy sauce to green beans.
Greek green beans are simmered
with onions, tomatoes, garlic and oregano until soft.
Italian recipes for green beans
are very similar to the Greek recipes. They call for stewed tomatoes,
onion, garlic, basil and parmesan cheese.
The French love true haricot
verts and cook them using white wine, mushrooms, pearl onions and garlic.
Some French recipes call for nothing more than the addition of fresh lemon
and parsley.
When you have a perfect ingredient less is actually more.
Please
take a look at all of our delicious and tasty recipes
Green Bean Recipes
-
Easy
BBQ Recipes -
Valentine's
Day & Romantic Dinner Recipes
-
Thanksgiving
Recipes - Christmas
Recipes
We ate fresh green beans often as kids. I can remember sitting with my
MomMom under the big tree in our yard. We each had a bowl of fresh green
beans in our laps snapping them in preparation for dinner. Not only was
it fun snapping the green beans I thought they tasted great raw.
My husband and I were married
several years ago. While I was learning my way around my new hometown
we stopped in at a local farm stand called Papa John's. The above memory
came flooding back to me. I hadn't cooked fresh green beans in quite some
time. That day we bought green beans and return as often as we can during
the growing season to enjoy farm fresh green beans.
It's very easy to tell if green beans are fresh. They will feel fleshy
and firm. If you see green beans that are limp and have a wrinkled appearance
to them avoid them, they're not fresh.
Along
with great taste green beans have great nutritional value!
Green beans are an excellent source of vitamin C, vitamin K and manganese.
They are a good source of vitamin A and an excellent source of vitamin
C, and 3/4 of a cup of is only 25 calories.
Green Bean Salad, Provençal
This is an amazingly easy and tasty salad to showcase lovely haricots verts from the cookbook Simca's Cuisine by Simone "Simca" Beck. The French flair of this salad is unmistakable. We never knew that French cuisine could be so unfussy. We've made this salad many times but tend to enjoy it best when we can also showcase other produce grown right in our garden. We use our homegrown tomatoes, fennel, and basil.
Italian Green Bean recipe, St. Anna Bean recipe
This recipe comes courtesy of The Complete Mediterranean, The Beautiful Cookbook. There are several variations of this recipe. Another Tuscan variation of this recipe calls for the addition of one teaspoon of fresh marjoram, which we'd suggest you add right at the end of cooking for the freshest flavor. For a Lebanese flair you can use tomato paste in place of the chopped plum tomatoes and add parsley, mint, dill or oregano to taste.
Holiday green bean casserole recipe
Everyone's favorite holiday green bean recipe. Anyone who cooks, and everyone who has ever eaten a Thanksgiving dinner is familiar with that old favorite the green bean casserole. What could be more simple, frozen or canned green beans, cream of mushroom soup and canned dried onions. Just try to find canned dried onions within three days of Thanksgiving in any foodstore - good luck. Campbell's came up with this creamy/crunchy concoction in 1955.
Home | Varieties of Green Beans | How to Grow Green Beans | Canning Green Beans | Freezing Green Beans | Green Bean Recipes | Link to us | Vegetable and food links | Privacy Policy | Sitemap
