"Wayne Boatwright" <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Oh pshaw, on Thu 10 Aug 2006 02:18:55p, meant to say...
>
>>
>> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>>> On a related note, I was picking through green beans at the store last
>>> week, and the old lady next to me asked how I was going to cook them. I
>>> told her. Then, she held up some large "all purpose potatoes" and said
>>> "I like to put the beans in the pot and boil them with the potatoes.
>>> They take about the same time, you know?"
>>>
>>> Can you imagine those green beans? :-)
>>
>> I don't know about large potatoes but green beans cooked with small
>> round potatoes are good. Green beans and corn mixed together are good
>> too.
>>
>
> Green beans and potatoes is a "standard" southern side dish, in which the
> green beans are not meant to be "tender-crisp". It's very good if done
> well.
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright

Maybe, but the idea of boiling green beans for more than about 40 seconds
reminds of the canned crap my mother used to serve, after boiling them for
another hour. Blech. It's hard to shake these initial impressions.