Jazzing up my green beans....

[anonymousbird]

Have an abundance of delicious green beans, mostly the thin french type, so eating them most days. Love them, but want to do something a little different with them to go with my pork shoulder and sautes tonight....

Your ideas please!!!

cream and grainy mustard sauce!

or a little green bean sabzi? (heat oil, chillis, cumin, coriander, salt and pepper, add tomatoes, beans and onion, simmer for 10 min)

Juice a couple of lemons, and add gossamer thin slivers of garlic to the juice...the acid in the lemon will 'cook' the sharpness off the garlic.

Steam/blanch green beans so cooked but still very CRISP, and then drop immediately into ICE COLD water. Drain them, add lemon and garlic juice and rock salt.

Eat immediately or the lemon juice will fade the bright green cover. YUM

I'd go full on for the cream and grainy mustard, but DH (and his entire family) have this "thing" about remotely creamy sauces... which is a real shame because I love them! When I am on my own tomorrow, I will try that for sure! Mmmmm.

Both the other two suggestions have me salivating as well, and will also be appealing to DH, so I thank you for the wonderful ideas!

ChoChoSan as well, ugh, divine. Hadn't thought of eating them cold..

Glad I asked the question!

Sweat some finely chopped onion. Cook beans as per usual. Mix together, with thyme.
Yum.

Whiz some sun dried tomatoes with a stick blend, mix with butter and then toss the hot beans in it

Or just chop them...I'm a bit in love with my new blender

-- toast cumin seed with a bit of garlic
-- crispy onions and feta
-- olive oil and balsamic vinegar