"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
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> > wrote in message
> oups.com...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> The potatoes this lady had in her hand were pretty large. I think she was
> from the "boil everything until it's pudding" generation.
>

Cooking green beans for a long time (say, a couple of hours)
with salt pork, potatoes, onion, and red pepper is a time
honored way of preparing them for folks from the south.

I grew up in southern Indiana, which, if you're familiar with
it, is really "Northern Kentucky" which is practically the
south. Just about every Sunday my grandmother would
make fried chicken and serve it with long cooked green
beans as well as other stuff.

When cooked long, the beans are resurected as an entirely
different dish.