Different types of green beans
Food & Cooking Tips
Just what are haricot verts?
I remember the first time I heard the Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten use
the term "haricot verts". I couldn't think what it could be.
Knowing how Ina loves French cooking I knew that it must be some fabulous
French ingredient I'd never heard of.
Well,
imagine my surprise when I leared that haricot verts were green beans!
True haricot verts are very thin, crisp and tender green beans.
Beurre de Rocquencourt are a variety of French Heirloom
beans which would be considered haricot verts.
Check out Ina Garten's recipe Green
Beans with Shallots from Ina Garten's "Barefoot Contessa Family
Style"
Pole
beans or bush beans?
When you start growing green beans you first need to choose between those
that grow on a bush, apply named "bush beans" and those that
will need support or poles as they grow, which are called "pole beans."
There really is no difference between pole beans and bush beans, other than how they grow. Obviously pole beans are those which climb as they grow and bush beans are low growing bushes. One may fit into your garden architecture better than the other or you may prefer the look of one over another.
Green beans come in a variety of colors.
Green beans come in some lovely colors that you'd never imagine. How about
purple? Yes, that's right, purple. One purple variety of green bean is
called Violet Podded, and it's a pole bean. There are also yellow (or
gold) green beans too. A very popular yellow green bean is the Rocquencourt.
The Rocquencourt is a yellow heirloom French Filet green bean with a very
thin long pod. Another French Filet green bean is the Balong. Generally
purple green beans and yellow green beans are identical in taste and texture
to green green beans.
One thing I'd like to
add here about purple green beans. They are best used raw. Once heat is
applied to them they will loose their color (it bleeds out). Some chef's
suggest the best way to cook them and have them retain their best color
is to "butter baste" them.
Green beans a'la Waterman's
Our very favorite green bean recipe. One of our favorite seafood restaurants is in Rock Hall, Maryland. It's called Waterman's and they make the most delicious green beans we've ever had. We tried and tried to figure out the seasoning, but we couldn't. OK, we easily tasted the chicken stock, but there was something else, something we couldn't quite put our fingers on. Well, believe it or not, that something else is garlic, yes, garlic, and LOTS of it.
Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes, Turkey Help
I took the turkey out of the freezer and put it into the refrigerator two days before Thanksgiving so that it would thaw thoroughly. I also kept an eye on it to make sure it was thawing. The day before Thanksgiving I got the turkey out, removed the giblets and rinsed it. I put the turkey back in the refrigerator.
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