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While I was away my wife put up 30 qts of the first picking beans and has been eating them every day fresh. When I got home she said she was tired of them. Go figure. Anyway had a big mess of beans cooked with bacon and honey last night, ummm. She put up another 30qts that I picked yesterday and told me no more. How do you like them cooked?

Russ, my wife was, and sometimes yet, big on canning green beans. We just simmer them, she likes to put a little butter, and salt on them.

Love green beans. Ours have grown to the roof line on the trellis I built. They are flowering now. Will be eating them soon. Simmer, return to the pot with butter, salt and pepper and lightly fry. Good eats.

Never heard of that before....bacon and honey.



I like to use onion, mushrooms and bacon.

Sometimes a little garlic.

I put the bacon in em when I can em, good stuff

If they are good & fresh, I'll just as likely eat 'em raw !

Otherwise, sautéed with bacon batons, garlic & pine nuts.

Or, sautéed with butter, tiny bit of OO, onions & chili flakes.

Sweet and sour beans.

Canned beans, with the juice, and chopped onions.
Get good and hot in a sauce pan, soften onions.
Dump in a strainer.


Fry some bacon, in pan. Set aside to drain.
Add cider vinegar deglaze pan, add enough brown sugar to make sauce sweet/sour.
Return beans and broken up bacon. Stir. Serve.

For fresh garden beans, I just like to boil them a bit, then slather on butter and shake on salt and pepper. The aroma of a just-opened jar of home-canned beans always brings back memories of diaper pails.

Sometimes in the winter we do a stirfry with some frozen green beans, on top of mushrooms, celery, whatever else is handy, garlic, s&p and a jalapeno pepper to give it a little heat. Nice change in the winter.

I hate green beans!

I like them with bacon and those little round onions sometimes with slivered almonds.