A few weeks ago I discovered that I did like fresh green beans and found some good ways to prepare them. Then I got another pound of green beans at my next pick-up, and I'm starting to think they are multiplying in my fridge. I swear I've been eating them, but there's always more that need to be eaten.
When I went out to eat last weekend, the waitress said they didn't have green beans as the menu said but had asparagus instead. I was ready to make a trade to get some asparagus for my green beans. Something tells me they would not have gone for it.
Anyway, I was starting to feel like I had no other way to cook them until I did some searching on allrecipes. I found this recipe for pasta with green beans, new potatoes, pesto and yogurt, which shockingly I had all of the ingredients. (I bought the yogurt for peach smoothies.) While I would have left out the potatoes, this was actually a good way to eat my green beans, in fact I considered them the key ingredient, although I'll eat just about anything with some pesto on it.
I woke up with a cold Wednesday morning (still not sure why since it's July!), and I decided to eat more green beans for dinner last night since I couldn't taste anything anyway. I was talking with someone about preparing the green beans the same way I cooked asparagus (i.e. with olive salt in the toaster oven). I also cooked some thinly sliced new potatoes, and it actually made for a decent meal considering I wasn't that hungry to begin with.
But even after all of that, I still have green beans left, but it doesn't look like I will be getting more with my share this week, which is a relief!
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I just saw your blog post and can relate, I've had that happen several times. I actually just created a cookbook for one, and specifically made an index by ingredient, so that you can reference the index, find green beans and see other recipes that call for it. It helps maximize your store dollar.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to check it out, it is called "Table for One: Perfectly Portioned Meals for the Single Chef." (http://www.amazon.com/Table-One-Camille-Funk/dp/1599554321/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277925907&sr=8-1)
I know you said you didn't want to freeze vegetables, but green beans are some of the easiest to do! Trust me when I tell you, they taste better when you freeze them yourself.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pickyourown.org/beansfreezing.htm