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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.

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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.


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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.


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