"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
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> These shoes look like Frankenstein's hand-me-downs.
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I like my green beans cooked to the soft stage also. I can't stand them
when they are hard; ok for tender crisp in a salad, but not with mashed
pots.
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