Comments on: Sea to shining sea.

By: basset

basset — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:59:32 +0000

The one true way to make really good green beans: pick them on the same day as some new potatoes, can them in quart jars with a little bacon, then when the weather gets good and cold that winter simmer ‘em in the slow cooker and make some cornbread.

By: LA mary

LA mary — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:25:32 +0000

Hey. I’ve been eating that way back to my NJ years. It was a reaction to growing up on my grandmother’s canned green beans cooked to mush. The in-house Brit likes the cooked to mush variety, but no surprise there.

By: nancy

nancy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:03:44 +0000

aka, “California fag-style.”

By: LA mary

LA mary — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:47:35 +0000

I really like my green beans on the plain side, just some butter or olive oil and salt and pepper, cooked so they’re still slightly crunchy.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:32:15 +0000

Ahhhhhh – thanks! Just that one random scrap of a memory was all that remained (must have been a mis-file!), and it flitted across my consciousness when Alex’s dead/bypassed farm hands blew past (and Dorothy, you made me laugh out loud with your ‘to die for’ pun!)

By: Cosmo Panzini

Cosmo Panzini — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:17:00 +0000

No, it wasn’t a movie, it was a TV episode of his from the 50′s.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:15:23 +0000

My hubby makes fresh green beans with shallots and ginger, sauteeing them in olive oil and about 1 tbsp. of butter or margarine. They are to die for.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:27:10 +0000

All the men in that family either died or had quadruple bypasses by the age of 45.

ha! Sounds a little Hitchcockian!

(Didn’t he make a movie where the murderous woman whacked her fella with a frozen leg-a-lamb, then cooked and ate it – thereby disposing of the murder weapon?)

By: alex

alex — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:12:05 +0000

Harry, beb–

The only way to make green beans palatable is bacon. First time I ever had any that I could stand was at a friend’s house. His mother, a farm woman, would put beans in a pressure cooker with a huge chunk of bacon and… presto! In fact, she’d have multiple pressure cookers going, one full of chicken, one full of beef, and serve meals on any given day that would put most Thanksgiving feasts to shame.

All the men in that family either died or had quadruple bypasses by the age of 45.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:40:49 +0000

Susan Stamberg’s mauve wickedness is perfect on a turkey sandwich, but that’s the best use i’ve found, other than with roast beef if your Thanksgiving swings that way.

Robert Irvine on “Dinner: Impossible” did a nicely bizarre version of “Nilla Original French Pudding” for his challenge at Graceland, with a tragically waxy Priscilla stiffly smiling/wincing her way through the events.