a plain green bean excites me...

[crisgal]

...enough to enjoy it in it's natural yummy glory, but my family think they are boring!
What can I do to make them more interesting?

(We are having salmon with parsley sauce and garlic roasties)

[rowanwitch]

parsley butter and toasted sesame seeds

[crisgal]

ooh i've got some sesame seeds - should i toast them first?

[vodkancoke]

I do mine 2 ways:

1/ Cook the green beans until they are "al dente" and drain. Heat some olive oil, add some garlic and chilli if you like it spicy (oo-er!). Once that is sizzling, throw in the green beans and re heat through until they are as cooked as you like them.

2/ Again cook the beans until they are done enough for you and drain. Heat olive oil, garlic, either a tin of plum tomatoes or use fresh tomatoes and cook down for around 15 -20 mins. Add some fresh basil, add the beans and cook through.

:)

[crisgal]

^^'oo-er' pmsl

[mccfluff]

i like them cold with a vingarette

[vivandorron]

Is this any help.?:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...beanswithgarlic_11974

Ron.

[crisgal]

it sounds delish v and v but i've no almonds :(

[Ann]

I love plain mayo on my runner beans (home grown, cut up in big chunks, not sliced, and certainly not over cooked!) YUMMY ...

[vivandorron]

Ann ...I would be cooking the beans, straining, adding a good sprinkling of ground pepper, a few tablespoonfuls of mayo...mixing together and re- heating before. serving. Beans in a cream sauce is the end result.

Crisgal...If you havn't got almonds...just leave them out. The beans will still taste good and will be different to just boiled beans.

Ron.

[Ann]

Ron - Never thought of heating mayo, what a good idea! I always add black pepper though. Which brings me to another question - why do some restaurants/cafe insist on putting horrid white (or rather yellowy!) pepper in their cruets instead of black pepper. Does anyone really prefer white over black?

[Ann]

You have set me off crisgal - just looked out some salmon fillets from the fridge!

[vivandorron]

Ann... I have never considered myself to be a Macho man, although, as I am the cook in our house,Viv may agree that I am a Mayo one.

I use Mayo in all sorts of things. Left over vegetables sliced up and stirred with a few spoonfuls, along with a teaspoonfull of mixed herbs and then heated in the microwave for for five minutes, is great with any cold meat. We refer to it as 'Bungy' because you can 'bung-in' anything you like in the vegetable line and even add some grated cheese. Peas reheated with some mayo is also a good way to serve them with a roast meal.

Ron.

[Anngel123]

Cook beans until nearly cooked. remove to a bowl. fry chopped mushrooms in fat of choice (I like butter) then toss the beans in the resulting yumminess.

[crisgal]

i love white pepper! I prefer it in mashed spuds, carrot and swede, and anything pale - celery, chicken soup etc.
Also wonderful with lurpack on corn on the cob. Black pepper just wouldn't be the same as far as |I'm concerned.
I'll keep that for my italian dishes.

[wolf63]

crisgal - what a disgusting thread. Green Beans are inedible and should be avoided at all costs. Yucky.


;-)

[vivandorron]

Oh, come on wolfy.... Green Beans are loaded with vitamins.:-

http://www.ehow.com/a...ents-green-beans.html

Ron.☺☺☺

[crisgal]

and they squeak when you chew 'em!

[boxtops]

Wolf - No. 1 son goes mad for cut green beans, he plays with them for hours. Yours should try it!